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fix(man): give each shell a working MANPATH line - #4109
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Match on the SHELL executable name so a shell name in a parent directory no longer picks the wrong rc file. Print ". <file>" for POSIX shells because dash has no "source". The fish line dropped the default man path when MANPATH was unset, so "man ls" stopped working. Join with ":" like the POSIX line, which fish splits into a path list. csh and tcsh got an export line for ~/.profile, which neither reads; give them setenv for ~/.tcshrc or ~/.cshrc. The install docs now show the line for each shell. Drive the tests through "tox man" instead of importing the private helper. test_run_installpkg_targz installed black, flake8 and sphinx from PyPI for two environments and hit the 30s timeout on Windows. The regression it guards (tox-dev#3165) happens before pip runs, so stub the installer and assert both environments install the sdist.
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tox mantells shells other than fish, bash, zsh, csh and tcsh to edit~/.profile. Before,sh,ksh,dashand an unsetSHELLwere sent to~/.zshrc, because the old lookup was a dict keyed on booleans and the zsh entry overwrote the others with keyFalse./home/zshuser/bin/bashgets~/.bashrc.. <file>, sincedashhas nosource.MANPATHwas unset. Before, it left only~/.local/share/man, andman lsfound nothing.setenvfor~/.tcshrcor~/.cshrcinstead of anexportline for~/.profile, which neither reads nor accepts.