changeset 5108:8c482171bb10

(Man-specified-section-option): New variable. (Man-translate-references): Use that variable.
author Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
date Mon, 22 Nov 1993 06:34:22 +0000
parents 2a019dd8ed51
children 062da10a4a6b
files lisp/man.el
diffstat 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/lisp/man.el	Mon Nov 22 04:33:26 1993 +0000
+++ b/lisp/man.el	Mon Nov 22 06:34:22 1993 +0000
@@ -209,6 +209,14 @@
 (defvar Man-switches ""
   "*Switches passed to the man command, as a single string.")
 
+;; Would someone like to provide a good test for being on Solaris?
+;; We could give it its own value of system-type, but that has drawbacks;
+;; it would require changes in lots of places that test system-type.
+(defvar Man-specified-section-option ""
+  "*Option that indicates a specified a manual section name.
+On most Unix systems, no option is needed for this.
+On Solaris, you need to set this to \"-s \".")
+
 ;; ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 ;; end user variables
 
@@ -314,7 +322,7 @@
 				(Man-downcase s2)
 			      s2)
 		    slist nil))))
-	(concat section " " word))
+	(concat Man-specified-section-option section " " word))
     ref))
 
 (defun Man-linepos (&optional position col-p)