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Re: Calling different man
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: Calling different man |
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Thu, 11 Dec 2003 21:24:39 +0200 |
> From: Yuri Shtil <yshtil@cisco.com>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 10:11:25 -0800
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> What I need to do is to use the existing man.el but a different man
> program. The situation is complicated since the program I want to use
> has a man subcommand:
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> acme man ...
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> What I want to do is to create a variation of the man command that would
> invoke acme with the first argument man and the rest provided by the
> user as in the original man command. I want to use all the stuff
> provided in the man.el.
Why can't you simply frob the variable manual-program? Its default
value is "man", but I cannot see anything that would prevent you from
changing that to "acme man".
Did I miss something?