Improve do string of 'man'

* lisp/man.el (man): Mention the need to use C-q for quoting the
SPC character in the man-page input.  (Bug#41859)

diff --git a/lisp/man.el b/lisp/man.el
index 4406ac5d64296985b558a8db3c58747b99ccc424..c914ec34b97ab384b9dac52bc7c6a4312cd8c8da 100644 (file)
--- a/lisp/man.el
+++ b/lisp/man.el
@@ -996,7 +996,11 @@ An \"apropos\" query with -k gives a buffer of matching page
 names or descriptions.  The pattern argument is usually an
 \"grep -E\" style regexp.
 
-    -k pattern"
+    -k pattern
+
+Note that in some cases you will need to use \\[quoted-insert] to quote the
+SPC character in the above examples, because this command attempts
+to auto-complete your input based on the installed manual pages."
 
   (interactive
    (list (let* ((default-entry (Man-default-man-entry))