As this very old bug is still open... On 2002-03-18 11:45:08 -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 11:06:15AM -0500, Clint Adams wrote: > > > > When the -l option is given, man will open and display a man page > > > specified as a pathname (and not search manpath). At least with > > > Debian's man, this also works if -l is not specified, though manpath is > > > searched first. > > > > This doesn't work for me with man-db 2.3.20-15. What am I doing wrong? > > The fallback only seems to work if there is a '/' character in the argument: > > poseidon:[~] ls man.1 > man.1 > poseidon:[~] man man.1 > No manual entry for man.1 > zsh: exit 16 man man.1 > poseidon:[~] man -l man.1 > Reformatting man.1, please wait... > poseidon:[~] man ./man.1 > Reformatting man.1, please wait... > poseidon:[~]
With zsh 5.8-6+b2 on my machine, completion works as expected if there is a "/" character: zira:~> man ./ma[Tab] gives zira:~> man ./man.1 Completion also works with -l, but also proposes files that are not man pages. I don't know whether such a difference is expected. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
