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bug#46979: Allow setting Man-default-entry via Local Variables
From: |
Daniel Martín |
Subject: |
bug#46979: Allow setting Man-default-entry via Local Variables |
Date: |
Mon, 08 Mar 2021 16:48:52 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (darwin) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> Our solution to this is "C-h S". Did you try it? You can extend its
> database if the default lacks something you need.
C-h S only searches Info pages. I think this feature request is more
about improving the default that M-x man offers, to consider more things
than just the text around point.
I can see its usefulness, as a lot of Unix tools provide special man
pages for its configuration files. Another potential use case is a user
visiting a .gitconfig file, where M-x man could suggest "git-config(1)"
by default. Similarly for .gitattributes and "gitattributes(5)".
As it's almost impossible to have all that knowledge in Emacs core, I
see it as a new extensibilty point for users. What are the downsides
you see in the local variable approach?
- bug#46979: Allow setting Man-default-entry via Local Variables, (continued)
- bug#46979: Allow setting Man-default-entry via Local Variables, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/03/08
- bug#46979: Allow setting Man-default-entry via Local Variables, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson, 2021/03/08
- bug#46979: Allow setting Man-default-entry via Local Variables, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/03/08
- bug#46979: Allow setting Man-default-entry via Local Variables, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson, 2021/03/08
- bug#46979: Allow setting Man-default-entry via Local Variables, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/03/08
- bug#46979: Allow setting Man-default-entry via Local Variables, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson, 2021/03/08
- bug#46979: Allow setting Man-default-entry via Local Variables, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/03/08
- bug#46979: Allow setting Man-default-entry via Local Variables, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson, 2021/03/09
- bug#46979: Allow setting Man-default-entry via Local Variables, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/03/09
- bug#46979: Allow setting Man-default-entry via Local Variables, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson, 2021/03/09
- bug#46979: Allow setting Man-default-entry via Local Variables,
Daniel Martín <=
- bug#46979: Allow setting Man-default-entry via Local Variables, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/03/08
- bug#46979: Allow setting Man-default-entry via Local Variables, Daniel Martín, 2021/03/08
- bug#46979: Allow setting Man-default-entry via Local Variables, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/03/08
- bug#46979: Allow setting Man-default-entry via Local Variables, Basil L. Contovounesios, 2021/03/08