In Aurora the man page completion in fish shell doesn’t work at all.
I type for instance man f<tab> and nothing happens.
bash man page completion doesn’t work as well. Only zsh is ok here.
Could be that it is the same in bluefin and bazzite ??!
How did you set your shell?
Like this?
But I can only reproduce your issue with fish, bash and zsh work fine.
Could be that it is the same in bluefin and bazzite ??!
No idea
My user shell is bash and in ptyxis I tell to invoke fish.
We don’t really support fish, so if you use it, you are pretty much on yourself getting it to work
Regarding support: you only support bash but neither zsh nor fish???
I nice guy from the fish team helped me debugging. The result is that it seems that the apropos command is broken.
Example: In an Arch based distrobox I type apropos regex and get
```
ausearch_add_regex (3) - use regular expression search rule
re_comp (3) - BSD regex functions
re_exec (3) - BSD regex functions
regcomp (3) - POSIX regex functions
regerror (3) - POSIX regex functions
regex (3) - POSIX regex functions
regex (7) - POSIX.2 regular expressions
regex.h (0p) - regular expression matching types
regex_t (3type) - POSIX regex functions
regexec (3) - POSIX regex functions
regcomp (3p) - regular expression matching
regfree (3) - POSIX regex functions
regmatch_t (3type) - POSIX regex functions
regoff_t (3type) - POSIX regex functions
std::__detail::_Executor (3) - Takes a regex and an input string and does the matching.
std::basic_regex (3) - (unknown subject)
std::regex_constants (3) - ISO C++ 2011 namespace for options and flags used with std::regex.
std::regex_error (3) - A regular expression exception class.
std::regex_iterator (3) - (unknown subject)
std::regex_token_iterator (3) - (unknown subject)
std::regex_traits (3) - (unknown subject)
Test2::Compare::Regex (3perl) - Regex direct comparison
Tie:
:NamedCapture (3perl) - Named regexp capture buffers
TYPE_REGEXP (3x) - form system global variables
XML::LibXML::RegExp (3pm) - XML::LibXML::RegExp - interface to libxml2 regular expressions
```
In Aurora I type the same and get
regex: nothing appropriate.
Solved now by running sudo mandb which updated (or created???) the apropos database.
It looks like in Aurora there is no man-db.{timer,service} to take care.
I took a look and in, for instance, Arch Linux the man-db package contains it.
I found that Fedora has man-db-cache-update.service Not sure if some config is missing here.
This service is a static service which means AFAIK that it is kind of enabled. But I don’t know who starts it or who should start it.
Bash is the only officially supported. Others are provided for people who want them.
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