From b9abf5ceb2de9843eacafc7d004a9adbd060dfa8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2020 10:48:02 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] 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)
---
lisp/man.el | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/lisp/man.el b/lisp/man.el
index 4406ac5d642..c914ec34b97 100644
--- 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))
--
2.39.5