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Re: does (setq Man-switches "-a") work?
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: does (setq Man-switches "-a") work? |
Date: |
Sat, 30 Nov 2019 14:20:58 +0200 |
> Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2019 11:40:46 +0100
> From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
> <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> > There's no pager involved, so I don't
> > understand what switches could be relevant
> > here. See Man-goto-page for how the paging
> > is done.
>
> C-h v Man-switches RET:
>
> Man-switches is a variable defined in ‘man.el’.
> Its value is "-a"
> Original value was ""
>
> Documentation:
> Switches passed to the man command, as a single string.
> For example, the -a switch lets you see all the manpages for a
> specified subject, if your ‘man’ program supports it.
Which sounds absolutely fine to me (and it says nothing about any
pager).
- does (setq Man-switches "-a") work?, Emanuel Berg, 2019/11/30
- Re: does (setq Man-switches "-a") work?, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/11/30
- Re: does (setq Man-switches "-a") work?, Emanuel Berg, 2019/11/30
- Re: does (setq Man-switches "-a") work?, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/11/30
- Re: does (setq Man-switches "-a") work?, Emanuel Berg, 2019/11/30
- Re: does (setq Man-switches "-a") work?,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: does (setq Man-switches "-a") work?, Emanuel Berg, 2019/11/30
- Re: does (setq Man-switches "-a") work?, Emanuel Berg, 2019/11/30
- Re: does (setq Man-switches "-a") work?, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/11/30
- Re: does (setq Man-switches "-a") work?, Emanuel Berg, 2019/11/30
- Re: does (setq Man-switches "-a") work?, Omar Polo, 2019/11/30
- Re: does (setq Man-switches "-a") work?, Emanuel Berg, 2019/11/30
Re: does (setq Man-switches "-a") work?, Perry Smith, 2019/11/30