From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#27833: 25.2; Add support for manpath command to woman.el Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 17:26:04 +0300 Message-ID: <83shhj5l6r.fsf@gnu.org> References: <871sp4xhq8.fsf@sc3d.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1501079234 5107 195.159.176.226 (26 Jul 2017 14:27:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 14:27:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 27833@debbugs.gnu.org To: Reuben Thomas Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 26 16:27:10 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1daNHI-0000sd-DY for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Jul 2017 16:27:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38486 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1daNHM-0006Ax-DV for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Jul 2017 10:27:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57951) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1daNHG-0006Ag-4d for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Jul 2017 10:27:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1daNHC-0002ga-2M for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Jul 2017 10:27:06 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:54823) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1daNHB-0002gQ-V8 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Jul 2017 10:27:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1daNHB-0008R4-Lz for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Jul 2017 10:27:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 14:27:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 27833 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 27833-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B27833.150107919132382 (code B ref 27833); Wed, 26 Jul 2017 14:27:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 27833) by debbugs.gnu.org; 26 Jul 2017 14:26:31 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57500 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1daNGh-0008QD-K6 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 26 Jul 2017 10:26:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:38472) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1daNGg-0008Q1-3b for 27833@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 26 Jul 2017 10:26:30 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1daNGW-0002Di-1v for 27833@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 26 Jul 2017 10:26:24 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:37938) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1daNGV-0002De-VP; Wed, 26 Jul 2017 10:26:19 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:1409 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1daNGV-0001mT-Ci; Wed, 26 Jul 2017 10:26:19 -0400 In-reply-to: <871sp4xhq8.fsf@sc3d.org> (message from Reuben Thomas on Tue, 25 Jul 2017 23:41:03 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:135013 Archived-At: > From: Reuben Thomas > Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2017 23:41:03 +0100 > > The attached patch against git master adds support for the man-db > manpath command to woman.el. > > For now, this can actually be better than using man, as man -k/apropos > does not currently support man directories lacking a database or whatis > file, which is typical for directories derived from PATH. Could you please provide a rationale for this addition? It sounds strange to me to enhance woman.el, whose main purpose is to work without ("wo") 'man', including on systems where 'man' is not easily available, by making it run 'manpath'. If something is wrong with woman-manpath's built-in database, why cannot we extend it by adding potential candidates to those already existing there? On top of that, I think we semi-deprecated woman.el because AFAIR it cannot support newer roff features which are abundant in recent man pages. So I wonder what kind of use case do you have that on the one hand needs woman.el, and OTOH finds its manpath emulation lacking.