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Subject: Re: Request for un-Linux `man man'.
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From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
Date: 25 Sep 1997 01:11:53 +0200
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SL Baur <steve@xemacs.org> writes:

> Karl M Hegbloom <karlheg@inetarena.com> writes:
> 
> >  Where do you put your {,t,g}roff manuals?  Is there a "catman"
> >  directory?  Is that automatic, ie, part of `man'?  I only know Linux.
> 
> Please do not go restoring the dependency on the structure of the man
> page directories.  man.el should only interact with the man program
> and not anything underneath it.

If you type `M-x man RET ls RET', then Emacs should definitely do what
you describe.  But if you invoke a, say, `M-x manual-browser', then
you might want to know more about the man-pages.

Either way, the default behaviour should be to simply call `man'.

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