[Pkg-zsh-devel] Bug#138691: zsh: completion for man should find filenames as well as man pages

[Vincent Lefevre]

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.

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