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Re: Completion for man pages in /usr/local/share

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From: "Hugo Osvaldo Barrera" <hugo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: dana <dana@xxxxxxx>
Cc: zsh-workers@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Completion for man pages in /usr/local/share
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2024 13:17:21 +0100
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On Mon, 9 Dec 2024, at 08:20, dana wrote:
> On Sun 8 Dec 2024, at 08:44, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera wrote:
>> I have some programs installed from source into /usr/local. Several of these
>> include man pages, but zsh won't  auto-complete man pages in this location.
>
> related to workers/50278
>
> basically (1) mandoc doesn't provide manpath, and (2) _man's built-in
> fall-back list doesn't include /usr/local/share/man
>
> bart's fix in master makes it call `man -w` before trying manpath, which will
> work better for you
>

Nice. So the next release shouldn't have this issue any more.

> coincidentally i was about to submit a patch for _man to fix some other things
> related to this. i will have it fix the fall-back list as well
>
> in the mean time you can add `export MANPATH="$( man -w )"` to your profile
>

Makes sense and works for me. Thanks!

-- 
Hugo

References:
- Completion for man pages in /usr/local/share
  - From: Hugo Osvaldo Barrera
- Re: Completion for man pages in /usr/local/share
  - From: dana

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