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From: Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>
To: jidanni@jidanni.org
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: dired-aux.el better nroff suggestion
Date: Sat, 03 May 2008 08:31:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bq3noq4f.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87bq3podyc.fsf@jidanni.org

On 2008-05-02 00:29 +0200, jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:

> SJ> Where did you get these suggestions from?  In stock Emacs -Q, there are
> SJ> no suggestions at all, and if you load dired-x, there are only "man -l"
> SJ> and "gunzip -q".
>
> All I know is
> $ zgrep zip.*nroff /usr/share/emacs/22.2/lisp/dired-x.el.gz
> "gunzip -qc * | tbl | nroff -man -h"))

I see.  The value is determined by Man-support-local-filenames:

 (if (Man-support-local-filenames)
     "man -l"
   "gunzip -qc * | tbl | nroff -man -h"))

I don't have an idea why Man-support-local-filenames returns nil for you
and t for me, but you can set the corresponding variable to t in your
.emacs.

Piping the nroff output through col -b seems reasonable in any case
though, since Emacs cannot currently display overstriked text well,
AFAIK.  But on some systems (e.g., Windows) col might not exist, since
it's part of the bsdmainutils rather than coreutils.

Sven




  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-03  6:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.11004.1209615826.18990.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-05-01  5:07 ` dired-aux.el better nroff suggestion Sven Joachim
2008-05-01 22:29   ` jidanni
2008-05-03  6:31     ` Sven Joachim [this message]
2008-05-04  1:52       ` jidanni
2008-05-04  2:05         ` Drew Adams
2008-05-04  2:39           ` jidanni
2008-05-01  4:23 jidanni

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