From b9abf5ceb2de9843eacafc7d004a9adbd060dfa8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2020 10:48:02 +0300 Subject: 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(-) (limited to 'lisp/man.el') 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)) -- cgit v1.2.3