Variable: Man-section-translations-alist

Man-section-translations-alist is a customizable variable defined in man.el.gz.

Value

(("3C++" . "3")
 ("3X11" . "3")
 ("1-UCB" . ""))

Documentation

Association list of bogus sections to real section numbers.

Some manpages (e.g. the Sun C++ 2.1 manpages) have section numbers in their references which Un*x man does not recognize. This association list is used to translate those sections, when found, to the associated section number.

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/man.el.gz
(defcustom Man-section-translations-alist
  (list
   '("3C++" . "3")
   ;; Some systems have a real 3x man section, so let's comment this.
   ;; '("3X" . "3")                        ; Xlib man pages
   '("3X11" . "3")
   '("1-UCB" . ""))
  "Association list of bogus sections to real section numbers.
Some manpages (e.g. the Sun C++ 2.1 manpages) have section numbers in
their references which Un*x `man' does not recognize.  This
association list is used to translate those sections, when found, to
the associated section number."
  :type '(repeat (cons (string :tag "Bogus Section")
		       (string :tag "Real Section")))
  :group 'man)