From 8e4fa9aafb03a048875beb64d281320a48e53c9e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Fabian Boehm <FHomborg@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2025 14:50:10 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] functions/man: Pass "-l" to get man to open a file

Supported by mandoc, man-db and NetBSD man, and mandoc now requires
this.

Fixes #12037
---
 share/functions/man.fish | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/share/functions/man.fish b/share/functions/man.fish
index 56dbb8611..782b24e76 100644
--- a/share/functions/man.fish
+++ b/share/functions/man.fish
@@ -62,7 +62,8 @@ function man
     if not set -q argv[2] && status list-files "man/man1/$argv[1].1" &>/dev/null
         set -l basename $argv[1].1
         function __fish_man -V basename -a man1
-            command man $man1/$basename
+            # mandoc man needs "-l" or it'll refuse to open a file
+            command man -l $man1/$basename
         end
         __fish_data_with_directory man/man1 \
             (string escape --style=regex -- $basename) __fish_man