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From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: 9447@debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Eric Hanchrow <eric.hanchrow@gmail.com>
Subject: bug#9447: 24.0.50; woman loses single quotes
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2011 02:48:47 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xzwrdinrcg.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1taaahdw79.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Glenn Morris's message of "Tue, 06 Sep 2011 20:37:14 -0400")

close 9447 24.1
stop

I think I fixed this. AFAICS, woman-if-body, which was unchanged since
woman.el was introduced, contained code that made no sense. A minimal
example of a file showing the problem is anything with more than one .ie
block, eg:

    .ie n .ds Ab x
    .el .ds Ab y
    .ie \n(.g .ds Aq \(aq
    .el       .ds Aq '
    .TH Moose
    .nh
    .SH "NAME"
    for example
    .PP
    \&  has \*(Aqssn\*(Aq

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. 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.





  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-09  6:48 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 [this message]
2011-09-09  7:24     ` Eli Zaretskii
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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