passing updated man page

[greg-minshall]

hi. eless is very nice. so, i've been using it a lot. recently, i was updating a man page for some software of mine which is already installed on my machine. i would do

nroff -man ./credeface.1 2>&1 | eless

but, i would always see the old man page, in spite of the fact that the new man page was right there. finally, i realized if i used less rather than eless, i would see the new man page.

that got me to look at the eless source, and it seems you parse the input enough to realize it is a man page, then decide which man page, then do (the emacs-equivalent of) man 1 credeface, so giving me the installed man page, rather than the new one i am working on.

i notice that M-x man is willing to take a filename (especially if preceded by a -l).

[insert a sentence here on 'i think this is a bug', or 'here is a feature request', or, more likely, 'i don't know what the right thing to do would be'.]

again, thanks for eless!

[edited 02.02.2023, change opinion of M-x man.]