From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: 9447@debbugs.gnu.org, eric.hanchrow@gmail.com
Subject: bug#9447: 24.0.50; woman loses single quotes
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2011 10:24:15 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83r53q5gbk.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xzwrdinrcg.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
> From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2011 02:48:47 -0400
> Cc: Eric Hanchrow <eric.hanchrow@gmail.com>
>
> I sort of wonder what the point of woman.el is. It has a punny name, but
> is basically a partial, buggy, reimplementation of a very standard
> external program that is surely installed on any system where man pages
> are used.
You obviously forget the use case of Emacs on MS-Windows. Man pages
come with many ported packages (including Emacs ;-), but I know of
only 2 decent version of the `man' program available for Windows: one
requires Cygwin to be installed, the other was written by yours truly,
and is not available as a Windows binary in any public site that I
know of (although the sources are available under GPL and can be
easily compiled on Windows). Thus woman.el.
> Eg I note that it doesn't render man.1 correctly on my current
> system, with the current trunk doing a worse job than Emacs 23.3 does.
Patches are very welcome.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-09 7:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-06 1:07 bug#9447: 24.0.50; woman loses single quotes Eric Hanchrow
2011-09-07 0:37 ` Glenn Morris
2011-09-09 6:48 ` Glenn Morris
2011-09-09 7:24 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2011-09-09 7:34 ` Glenn Morris
2011-09-09 7:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-09 12:25 ` Andy Moreton
2011-09-09 13:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
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