From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 08:31:45 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (Man-default-man-entry): Remove the leading `*' from the word at point.
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(Man-default-man-entry): Remove the leading `*' from the word at point.
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diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index 81f822398b1..469988dcbd5 100644
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2003-09-28  Evgeni Dobrev  <evgeni_dobrev@developer.bg> (tiny patch)
+
+	* man.el (Man-default-man-entry): Remove the leading `*' from the
+	word at point.
+
 2003-09-26  Lute Kamstra  <Lute.Kamstra@cwi.nl>
 
 	* bindings.el (mode-line-position): Mention size indication in
diff --git a/lisp/man.el b/lisp/man.el
index 075c38866fb..4a768e1effb 100644
--- a/lisp/man.el
+++ b/lisp/man.el
@@ -572,6 +572,9 @@ This guess is based on the text surrounding the cursor."
 	(setq word (buffer-substring-no-properties start (point))))
       (if (string-match "[._]+$" word)
 	  (setq word (substring word 0 (match-beginning 0))))
+      ;; If looking at something like *strcat(... , remove the '*'
+      (if (string-match "^*" word)
+	  (setq word (substring word 1)))
       ;; If looking at something like ioctl(2) or brc(1M), include the
       ;; section number in the returned value.  Remove text properties.
       (concat word