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authorEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2004-03-07 14:54:35 +0000
committerEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2004-03-07 14:54:35 +0000
commit372713e6964f7ce24cbf39ab2b133a4167a095be (patch)
treebe7b830494aeb0f18635bade03455c3e403c53d0 /lisp/woman.el
parent970736643d860e8c852fd8c96c629dea9198b9b6 (diff)
downloademacs-372713e6964f7ce24cbf39ab2b133a4167a095be.tar.gz
(woman-man.conf-path): Doc fix.
(woman-parse-man.conf): Also parse OPTIONAL_MANPATH. (Suggested by Stefan Reich <xsteve@nit.at>.)
Diffstat (limited to 'lisp/woman.el')
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/woman.el b/lisp/woman.el
index 6946930505f..cce6d4ca5e1 100644
--- a/lisp/woman.el
+++ b/lisp/woman.el
@@ -539,9 +539,9 @@ Change only via `Customization' or the function `add-hook'."
(mapcar 'woman-Cyg-to-Win path)
path))
"*List of dirs to search and/or files to try for man config file.
-A trailing separator (`/' for UNIX etc.) on directories is optional
-and the filename used if a directory is specified is the first to
-match the regexp \"man.*\\.conf\".
+A trailing separator (`/' for UNIX etc.) on directories is optional,
+and the filename is used if a directory specified is the first to
+contain the strings \"man\" and \".conf\" (in that order).
If MANPATH is not set but a config file is found then it is parsed
instead to provide a default value for `woman-manpath'."
:type '(repeat string)
@@ -554,7 +554,9 @@ Look in `woman-man.conf-path' and return a value for `woman-manpath'.
Concatenate data from all lines in the config file of the form
MANPATH /usr/man
or
- MANDATORY_MANPATH /usr/man"
+ MANDATORY_MANPATH /usr/man
+or
+ OPTIONAL_MANPATH /usr/man"
;; Functionality suggested by Charles Curley.
(let ((path woman-man.conf-path)
file manpath)
@@ -574,7 +576,7 @@ or
(while (re-search-forward
;; `\(?: ... \)' is a "shy group"
"\
-^[ \t]*\\(?:MANDATORY_\\)?MANPATH[ \t]+\\(\\S-+\\)" nil t)
+^[ \t]*\\(?:MANDATORY_\\|OPTIONAL_\\)?MANPATH[ \t]+\\(\\S-+\\)" nil t)
(setq manpath (cons (match-string 1) manpath)))
manpath))
))