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From: James LewisMoss <dres@scsn.net>
Date: 13 Jan 1997 05:44:34 -0500
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I've just installed the Debian release of Linux on my system.  So I'm
not sure if this is a Debian difference or something that has changed
in XEmacs recently.  Here is the --version line from man:

man, version 2.3.10, db 2.3.1, July 12th, 1995 (G.Wilford@ee.surrey.ac.uk)

1) 
When I do M-x man<return> and anything I get the 'This is the
appropriate command line arguments to man' message instead of the man
output.  Here is an example:

File: /usr/X11R6/man/man1/FvwmM4.1x.gz
[-msystem] [-pstring] [-Llocale] [-eextension] [section] page ...
-a, --all                   find all matching manual pages.
-d, --debug                 emit debugging messages.
-e, --extension             limit search to extension type 'extension'.
-f, --whatis                equivalent to whatis.
-k, --apropos               equivalent to apropos.
-w, --where, --location     print physical location of man page(s).
-l, --local-file            interpret 'page' argument(s) as local filename(s).
-u, --update                force a cache consistency check.
-r, --prompt string         provide the 'less' pager with a prompt
-c, --catman                used by catman to reformat out of date cat pages.
-7, --ascii                 display ASCII translation of certain latin1 chars.
-t, --troff                 use groff to format pages.
-T, --troff-device device   use groff with selected device.
-Z, --ditroff               use groff and force it to produce ditroff.
-D, --default               reset all options to their default values.
-M, --manpath path          set search path for manual pages to 'path'.
-P, --pager pager           use program 'pager' to display output.
-S, --sections list         use colon separated section list.
-m, --systems system        search for man pages from other unix system(s).
-L, --locale locale         define the locale for this particular man search.
-p, --preprocessor string   string indicates which preprocessors to run.
                  e - [n]eqn   p - pic    t - tbl
                  g - grap     r - refer  v - vgrind
-V, --version               show version.

So it seems that man is being called with incorrect args.

2)
Also may or may not be related doing M-x man<return> -k <something> I
get:

Signaling: (error "")
  signal(error (""))
  cerror("")
  apply(cerror "")
  error("")
  Manual-insert-pages(nil ("fvwm.-k") t)
  #<compiled-function (from "man.elc") (topic &optional arg silent) "...(530)" [arg 1 Manual-directory-list-init nil 2 4 Manual-match-topic-exactly 3 t apropos-mode manlist fmtlist section force exact case-fold-search string-match "\\`[ 	]*\\([^( 	]+\\)[ 	]*(\\(.+\\))[ 	]*\\'" topic "\\`[ 	]*-k[ 	]+\\([^ 	]+\\)\\'" "-k" silent message "Looking for formatted entry for %s%s..." "(" ")" "" Manual-select-man-pages Manual-formatted-directory-list "%sooking for unformatted entry for %s%s..." "L" "No formatted entry, l" Manual-unformatted-directory-list append rest rest2 file-name-nondirectory delq "No entries found for %s%s" Manual-topic-buffer "*Manual Apropos*" "*Manual Entry*" "*man apropos " "*" "*man " "." "..." Manual-buffer-view-mode view-buffer temp-buffer-show-function ...] 8 ("/usr/local/lib/xemacs-20.0-b90/lisp/packages/man.elc" . 10144) (list (let* ... ...) (prefix-numeric-value current-prefix-arg))>("-k fvwm" 1)
  call-interactively(manual-entry)
  command-execute(manual-entry t)
  execute-extended-command(nil)
  call-interactively(execute-extended-command)

