This is a bit of code I started to add completion to M-x man. The
filename bit might be slightly preliminary, I'm not too well up on the
best way to do filename completion tied in with other possibilities.

;;; man-completion.el --- completion for M-x man -*- coding: latin-1 -*-

;; Copyright 2008 Kevin Ryde

;; Author: Kevin Ryde zip.com.au>
;; Version: 1
;; Keywords: data
;; URL: http://www.geocities.com/user42_kevin/man-completion/index.html
;; EmacsWiki: ManMode

Hi,

are you aware of

* WoMan: (woman). Browse UN*X Manual Pages "Wo (without) Man".

which has such a feature already ?

Cheers

Martin

Martin Fischer nospam.net> writes:

Martin Fischer nospam.net> writes:

Yep, remarks in the file. In fact I put up the defadvice on the wiki
for pressing it into service on M-x man.

(defadvice man (before my-woman-prompt activate)
(interactive (progn
(require 'woman)
(list (woman-file-name nil)))))

The better question would actually be why not iman.el! :-) ... in the
end I found neither to be exactly what I wanted.

Roland Winkler writes:

There's normally a subtle difference in that man parses the pages for
aliases (lexgrog), so its database has the occasional extra.

(I guess further discussion to gnu-emacs-help rather than here ...)