If you put the following in your "~/.emacs" (or your
"~/.xemacs/init.el if you prefer) you'll be able to put the cursor
over a man page filename in `dired', and push `l' to display it in
the emacs manual viewer. This works for XEmacs. Anyone know a way
to make it work with GNU Emacs? If so, please post it.
I have two versions of `man.el' installed; one is the default,
supplied with XEmacs, and the other is a modified version of the one
that ships with GNU Emacs. That is why I test the number of args
that `manual-entry' takes.
This is really helpful while you are writing a man page.
(defun dired-man-locally ()
(interactive)
(if (= 1 (function-max-args #'manual-entry))
(manual-entry (concat (dired-get-filename) " -l"))
(manual-entry (dired-get-filename) "-l")))
(add-hook 'dired-setup-keys-hook
#'(lambda ()
(define-key dired-mode-map [(?l)] #'dired-man-locally)))
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