Bug 520034

Summary:	app-shells/bash-completion: perldoc should call /usr/bin/man, not just man
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Alex Efros <powerman-asdf>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Shell Tools project <shell-tools>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal	CC:	mgorny
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Alex Efros 2014-08-16 07:30:49 UTC

There is a problem with /usr/share/bash-completion/perl (both in bash-completion-1.3-r2 and 2.1) - to get list of available completions it execute `man` command. Sometimes users have own replacement in ~/bin/man which show man pages using non-standard browsers/pagers like vim, and this result in starting vim in background while trying to get completions.

I think it make sense to use `/usr/bin/man` instead of `man` to get completions.

Comment 1 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2014-08-16 09:48:32 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 520030 ***

Comment 2 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2014-08-16 09:49:14 UTC

oops, not a duplicate

Comment 3 Michał Górny archtester

2017-07-02 22:11:34 UTC

I'm sorry but this is not something I'm going to call supported. If you replace 'man' with something custom and incompatible with the original man, you get to keep the pieces. Hardcoding paths is a very bad idea, especially if the sole purpose is to workaround something broken on $PATH.