(concat Man-specified-section-option section " " name))))
(defun Man-support-local-filenames ()
- "Check the availability of `-l' option of the man command.
-This option allows `man' to interpret command line arguments
-as local filenames.
-Return the value of the variable `Man-support-local-filenames'
-if it was set to nil or t before the call of this function.
-If t, the man command supports `-l' option. If nil, it doesn't.
-Otherwise, if the value of `Man-support-local-filenames'
-is neither t nor nil, then determine a new value, set it
-to the variable `Man-support-local-filenames' and return
-a new value."
- (if (or (not Man-support-local-filenames)
- (eq Man-support-local-filenames t))
- Man-support-local-filenames
- (setq Man-support-local-filenames
- (with-temp-buffer
- (and (equal (condition-case nil
- (let ((default-directory
- ;; Assure that `default-directory' exists
- ;; and is readable.
- (if (and (file-directory-p default-directory)
- (file-readable-p default-directory))
- default-directory
- (expand-file-name "~/"))))
- (call-process manual-program nil t nil "--help"))
- (error nil))
- 0)
- (progn
- (goto-char (point-min))
- (search-forward "--local-file" nil t))
- t)))))
+ "Return non-nil if the man command supports local filenames.
+Different man programs support this feature in different ways.
+The default Debian man program (\"man-db\") has a `--local-file'
+\(or `-l') option for this purpose. The default Red Hat man
+program has no such option, but interprets any name containing
+a \"/\" as a local filename. The function returns either `man-db'
+`man', or nil."
+ (if (eq Man-support-local-filenames 'auto-detect)
+ (setq Man-support-local-filenames
+ (with-temp-buffer
+ (let ((default-directory
+ ;; Ensure that `default-directory' exists and is readable.
+ (if (and (file-directory-p default-directory)
+ (file-readable-p default-directory))
+ default-directory
+ (expand-file-name "~/"))))
+ (ignore-errors
+ (call-process manual-program nil t nil "--help")))
+ (cond ((search-backward "--local-file" nil 'move)
+ 'man-db)
+ ;; This feature seems to be present in at least ver 1.4f,
+ ;; which is about 20 years old.
+ ;; I don't know if this version has an official name?
+ ((looking-at "^man, versione? [1-9]")
+ 'man))))
+ Man-support-local-filenames))
\f
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