Function: manual-entry
manual-entry is a function alias and interactive for man, defined in
man.el.gz.
Signature
(manual-entry MAN-ARGS)
Documentation
Get a Un*x manual page and put it in a buffer.
This command is the top-level command in the man package.
It runs a Un*x command to retrieve and clean a manpage in the
background and places the results in a Man-mode browsing
buffer. The variable Man-width defines the number of columns in
formatted manual pages. The buffer is displayed immediately.
The variable Man-notify-method defines how the buffer is displayed.
If a buffer already exists for this man page, it will be displayed
without running the man command.
For a manpage from a particular section, use either of the following. "cat(1)" is how cross-references appear and is passed to man as "1 cat".
cat(1)
1 cat
To see manpages from all sections related to a subject, use an
"all pages" option (which might be "-a" if it's not the
default), then step through with Man-next-manpage (M-n (Man-next-manpage)) etc.
Add to Man-switches to make this option permanent.
-a chmod
An explicit filename can be given too. Use -l if it might otherwise look like a page name.
/my/file/name.1.gz
-l somefile.1
An "apropos" query with -k gives a buffer of matching page
names or descriptions. The pattern argument is usually an
"grep -E" style regexp.
-k pattern
Note that in some cases you will need to use C-q (quoted-insert) to quote the
SPC character in the above examples, because this command attempts
to auto-complete your input based on the installed manual pages.
If default-directory is remote, and Man-support-remote-systems
is non-nil, this command formats the man page on the remote system.
A prefix argument reverses the value of Man-support-remote-systems
for the current invocation.
Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 1.1.
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