From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#5568: Man-follow-manual-reference vs. perl man pages Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:19:10 +0200 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <874olmcqhl.fsf@mail.jurta.org> References: <87tytnc577.fsf@jidanni.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1266004376 8383 80.91.229.12 (12 Feb 2010 19:52:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:52:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 5568@debbugs.gnu.org To: jidanni@jidanni.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 12 20:52:50 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ng1ZE-0005DG-VC for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:52:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54310 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ng1ZE-0007V5-Am for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:52:44 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ng1Z8-0007UX-8n for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:52:38 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=55568 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ng1Z4-0007U9-Cv for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:52:36 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ng1Z1-0006JH-2P for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:52:34 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:59600) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ng1Z1-0006JD-12 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:52:31 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ng1YZ-0003hH-Gw; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:52:03 -0500 X-Loop: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-From: Juri Linkov Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:52:03 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Emacs-PR-Message: followup 5568 X-Emacs-PR-Package: emacs X-Emacs-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 5568-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B5568.126600429514143 (code B ref 5568); Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:52:03 +0000 Original-Received: (at 5568) by debbugs.gnu.org; 12 Feb 2010 19:51:35 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ng1Y6-0003g4-TG for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:51:35 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp-out4.starman.ee ([85.253.0.6] helo=mx2.starman.ee) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ng1Y4-0003fW-4D for 5568@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:51:33 -0500 X-Virus-Scanned: by Amavisd-New at mx2.starman.ee Original-Received: from mail.starman.ee (82.131.93.172.cable.starman.ee [82.131.93.172]) by mx2.starman.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id C69AB3F40D2; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:51:23 +0200 (EET) In-Reply-To: <87tytnc577.fsf@jidanni.org> (jidanni@jidanni.org's message of "Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:56:44 +0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.92 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:52:03 -0500 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:35067 Archived-At: > Many man pages have SEE ALSOs like > > SEE ALSO > XML::Parser::Lite. > perl v5.10.0 2009-08-23 XML::Parser::Lite::Tree(3pm) > > However Man-follow-manual-reference can't figure out that kind of > SEE ALSO item. The references in this SEE ALSO section are in a non-standard format. A reference should be a word followed by the section name in parentheses. So these man pages should write references in the format "XML::Parser::Lite(3pm)". Of course, you can get what you want with the following patch: === modified file 'lisp/man.el' --- lisp/man.el 2010-02-11 20:57:10 +0000 +++ lisp/man.el 2010-02-12 19:18:50 +0000 @@ -1135,7 +1135,7 @@ (defun Man-highlight-references (&option (Man-highlight-references0 nil Man-apropos-regexp 1 'Man-default-man-entry (or xref-man-type 'Man-xref-man-page))) - (Man-highlight-references0 Man-see-also-regexp Man-reference-regexp 1 + (Man-highlight-references0 Man-see-also-regexp Man-hyphenated-reference-regexp 1 'Man-default-man-entry (or xref-man-type 'Man-xref-man-page)) (Man-highlight-references0 Man-synopsis-regexp Man-header-regexp 0 2 But it will also highlight every word in those SEE ALSO sections that have lengthy text in several paragraphs. Look for example `M-x man XML::Twig RET' - there are 60 lines in the SEE ALSO section where all words will be highlighted as a reference! -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/