Bug 82691 - man can't find other manuals referenced in man pages
Summary: man can't find other manuals referenced in man pages
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Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1
Classification: Red Hat
Component: man
Version: 2.1
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Eido Inoue
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
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Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-01-24 22:32 UTC by Jochen Schmidt
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:06 UTC (History)
0 users

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Last Closed: 2003-08-01 21:33:29 UTC
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Description Jochen Schmidt 2003-01-24 22:32:43 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-AT; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212

Description of problem:
man can't find other manuals referenced in man pages


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. man zshall
2. /%m
3. the "Pattern not found" Message appears 


Actual Results:  only the infopage is displayed

Expected Results:        %m     The  hostname  up to the first `.'.  An integer may
              follow the `%' to specify how  many  components  of
              the hostname are desired.  With a negative integer,
              trailing components of the hostname are shown.



Additional info:

see BUG 75943 and BUG 78465 and BUG 75943 for details.
This BUG was opened on request of RedHat Technical Support (Service Request 226119):

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Comment 1 Eido Inoue 2003-08-01 21:33:29 UTC
(can't reproduce using the exact steps. Assuming user meant "man zsh", not "man
zshall").

In any case, current errata version of man appears to be able to search for
percent followed by a letter, so closing.


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