[Solved] CB 13.12 Compiled - Problem with help plugin

[Napoleon]

[Ubuntu 13.10 w/ CB13.12 built with --with-contrib-plugins=all]

I have a strange problem with the help plugin.

Having adding an entry "Man Pages" with the following settings:  command  = man:/usr/bin/man $(keyword)  "This is the default help" TICKED, and "Thus line represents a full command to be executed" TICKED.
When I press F1 in the editor, nothing happens.  When I open the view "Man pages viewer", the window opens, but when I type 'fgets' and press "Search" it returns Man page not found.

The Ubuntu command which man returns /usr/bin/man

To test the help plugin, I installed the devhelp package then created the devhelp.sh script (set its execution bit), and when I add it to the help plugin as the default, it works.

Why would the help plugin work for devhelp but not man pages?

Cheers,
Nap

[gd_on]

I don't use the man page viewer as you.
My command line is :
man:/usr/share/man
this is the path for all the man files, not the man executable itself, I don't add $(keyword), and, I don't check "This line represents a full command ..."
I'm on CentOS, but it should not be very different in your case.

gd_on

[Napoleon]

thanks gd_on, I set it the same as you have, and it works nice now.

I didn't realise it was looking for the location of the 'man' data files and had the executable's path there.  Also, "This line represents a full command to be executed" must be UN-TICKED.