Variable: Man-downcase-section-letters-flag

Man-downcase-section-letters-flag is a customizable variable defined in man.el.gz.

Value

t

Documentation

Non-nil means letters in sections are converted to lower case.

Some Un*x man commands can't handle uppercase letters in sections, for example "man 2V chmod", but they are often displayed in the manpage with the upper case letter. When this variable is t, the section letter (e.g., "2V") is converted to lowercase (e.g., "2v") before being sent to the man background process.

Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 19.29.

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/man.el.gz
(defcustom Man-downcase-section-letters-flag t
  "Non-nil means letters in sections are converted to lower case.
Some Un*x man commands can't handle uppercase letters in sections, for
example \"man 2V chmod\", but they are often displayed in the manpage
with the upper case letter.  When this variable is t, the section
letter (e.g., \"2V\") is converted to lowercase (e.g., \"2v\") before
being sent to the man background process."
  :type 'boolean)