woman: backslash is in fact control-backslash

woman: backslash is in fact control-backslash

[Akim Demaille]

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Originally sent to the Debian Bug Tracker.

Cheers!


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From: Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr>
To: Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org>
Subject: woman: backslash is in fact control-backslash
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 09:29:32 +0100
Message-ID: <E1Ay5HQ-00075W-00@nostromo.lrde.epita.fr>

Package: emacs21-common
Version: 21.3+1-4
Severity: normal


The woman mode seems to have problems with backslashes (\e in roff).
Although they are correctly displayed as `\', they are actually
understood as C-\.  This has nasty side effects:

- copy/paste result in C-\ instead of \
- C-s (isearch) will not find backslashes in the man page,
  unless you do search for C-\ (i.e., C-s C-q C-\).

As an example, I ran woman perlsub, look for "thinks the root is" and
observe that you can't isearch for the following \n, and that
copying/pasting this \n gives C-\ n.

Thanks!

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.22
Locale: LANG=fr_FR, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR

Versions of packages emacs21-common depends on:
ii  dpkg                        1.10.18.1    Package maintenance system for Deb
ii  emacsen-common              1.4.15       Common facilities for all emacsen.
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  liblockfile1                1.05         NFS-safe locking library, includes

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