Emacs command line arguments

Question

How to start emacs and run M-x man followed by the manpage name from bash.

I want this to have an alias to man in bash, but I'm new to emacs and can't figure out how to do this.

Nemo · Accepted Answer · 2011-08-17 05:17:49Z

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emacs --eval '(man "emacs")'

Good luck getting the quoting right in your alias. :-)

answered Aug 17, 2011 at 5:17

Nemo

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thanks, got the alias working with manu() { emacs --eval "(man \""$1"\")" }. Finally I have proportional fonts for reading man pages.