+2009-11-24 Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
+
+ * man.el (Man-completion-table): New function.
+ (man): Use it.
+
2009-11-24 David Reitter <david.reitter@gmail.com>
- * vc-git.el (vc-git-registered): use checkout directory (where
+ * vc-git.el (vc-git-registered): Use checkout directory (where
.git is) rather than the file's directory and a relative path spec
to work around a bug in git.
(eshell-parse-colon-path): New defun.
(eshell-file-attributes): Use `eshell-parse-colon-path'.
- * eshell/esh-ext.el (eshell-search-path): Use
- `eshell-parse-colon-path'.
+ * eshell/esh-ext.el (eshell-search-path):
+ Use `eshell-parse-colon-path'.
(eshell-remote-command): Remove argument HANDLER.
(eshell-external-command): Check for FTP remote connection.
- * eshell/esh-proc.el (eshell-gather-process-output): Use
- `file-truename', in order to start also symlinked files. Apply
- `start-file-process' instead of `start-process'. Shorten `command'
- to the local file name part.
+ * eshell/esh-proc.el (eshell-gather-process-output):
+ Use `file-truename', in order to start also symlinked files.
+ Apply `start-file-process' instead of `start-process'.
+ Shorten `command' to the local file name part.
- * eshell/em-cmpl.el (eshell-complete-commands-list): Use
- `eshell-parse-colon-path'.
+ * eshell/em-cmpl.el (eshell-complete-commands-list):
+ Use `eshell-parse-colon-path'.
* eshell/em-unix.el (eshell/du): Check for FTP remote connection.
2009-11-24 Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>
* doc-view.el (doc-view-mode): Switch off view-mode explicitly,
- because it could be enabled automatically if view-read-only is
- non-nil.
+ because it could be enabled automatically if view-read-only is non-nil.
2009-11-24 Michael Kifer <kifer@cs.stonybrook.edu>
;;;###autoload
(defalias 'manual-entry 'man)
+(defun Man-completion-table (string pred action)
+ (cond
+ ((memq action '(t nil))
+ (let ((table '()))
+ (with-temp-buffer
+ ;; Actually for my `man' the arg is a regexp. Don't know how
+ ;; standard that is. Also, it's not clear what kind of
+ ;; regexp are accepted: under GNU/Linux it seems it's ERE-style,
+ ;; whereas under MacOSX it seems to be BRE-style and
+ ;; doesn't accept backslashes at all. Let's not bother to
+ ;; quote anything.
+ (call-process "man" nil '(t nil) nil "-k" (concat "^" string))
+ (goto-char (point-min))
+ (while (re-search-forward "^[^ \t\n]+" nil t)
+ (push (match-string 0) table)))
+ ;; The table may contain false positives since the match is made
+ ;; by "man -k" not just on the manpage's name.
+ (complete-with-action action table string pred)))
+ ((eq action 'lambda) t)
+ ((eq (car-safe action) 'boundaries) nil)))
;;;###autoload
(defun man (man-args)
`Man-switches' variable, which see."
(interactive
(list (let* ((default-entry (Man-default-man-entry))
- (input (read-string
+ (input (completing-read
(format "Manual entry%s"
(if (string= default-entry "")
": "
(format " (default %s): " default-entry)))
- nil 'Man-topic-history default-entry)))
+ 'Man-completion-table
+ nil nil nil 'Man-topic-history default-entry)))
(if (string= input "")
(error "No man args given")
input))))