Re: manual entry should prompt with nearby text

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From: Dave Brennan
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 1990 03:05

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My simple hack to is change the interactive specification for manual-entry
to the following:

  (interactive (find-tag-tag "Manual entry: "))

Since this uses a function from tags.el, I also added "(require 'tags)" at
the top of man.el.

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Subject: Re: manual entry should prompt with nearby text
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