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_man only uses $manpath

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From: Adam Spiers <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: _man only uses $manpath
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 16:54:31 +0100
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Reply-to: Adam Spiers <adam@xxxxxxxxxx>

Shouldn't _man calculate man page completions using `man -w' rather
than $manpath?  For me, $manpath is always empty, so man doesn't
complete anything.

Is it safe to assume that `-w' is present in all sensible versions of
man?

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