From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8232 invoked from network); 16 Sep 1999 16:19:38 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 16 Sep 1999 16:19:38 -0000 Received: (qmail 20445 invoked by alias); 16 Sep 1999 16:19:17 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 7873 Received: (qmail 20436 invoked from network); 16 Sep 1999 16:19:16 -0000 X-Envelope-Sender-Is: Andrej.Borsenkow@mow.siemens.ru (at relayer david.siemens.de) Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 20:19:09 +0400 (MSD) From: Andrej Borsenkow X-Sender: bor@itsrm2.mow.siemens.ru To: Adam Spiers cc: zsh workers mailing list Subject: Re: _man only uses $manpath In-Reply-To: <19990916165431.D17248@thelonious.new.ox.ac.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Adam Spiers wrote: > Shouldn't _man calculate man page completions using `man -w' rather > than $manpath? For me, $manpath is always empty, so man doesn't > complete anything. > > Is it safe to assume that `-w' is present in all sensible versions of > man? > > No. It is not supported on our system at least. And here I do need $MANPATH. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrej Borsenkow Fax: +7 (095) 737 2747 Siemens ICP ITS Moscow Tel: +7 (095) 737 2723 E-Mail: Andrej.Borsenkow@mow.siemens.ru -------------------------------------------------------------------------