From: xahlee@gmail.com
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>,
rms@gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
erich@cozi.com, eric.hanchrow@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: RE: [PATCH] (woman-always-choose-first-hit): New defcustom.
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:08:09 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <00163646d11aec13c30464dff004@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <001e01c9a26b$5be3b5a0$c2b22382@us.oracle.com>
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the number of times i tried to use WoMan as a replacement of unix's
“man” utility, but i find it unusable. Here's some problems i encountered:
• I had aliased “man” to “woman”, but noticed that sometimes when i type
“Mx man” it still calls “man” despite this. (haven't looked into what
causes this or how this happens)
• When calling “woman”, it takes some 3 secs to start up. (probably only
happen when called first time in a session) On the other hand, “man” starts
right away without this delay.
(The message is: “Building list of manual directory expansions...”,
“Building completion list of all manual topics...”)
• often “woman” will prompt me to make a choice. Very annoying. From my
experiences in unix using in the past 10 years, maybe once a year when
“man” didn't make the right choice. (hopefully the patch in this thread
fixes this)
• another flaw, perhaps reasonable, is that “woman” does not work for some
“man” pages. eg recently i was trying to do “woman” on “killall” on OS X
10.4.x, and it returns
“.Dd June 25, 1995
.Os
.Dt KILLALL 1
.Sh NAME
.Nm killall
...”
The advantage to me for using “woman” is that it does syntax coloring.
Possibly “man” can do too but i have not explored.
Xah
☄
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-11 23:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-10 0:12 [PATCH] (woman-always-choose-first-hit): New defcustom Eric Hanchrow
2009-03-10 18:20 ` Richard M Stallman
2009-03-11 1:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-03-11 16:57 ` Richard M Stallman
2009-03-11 17:03 ` Drew Adams
2009-03-11 23:08 ` xahlee [this message]
2009-03-12 4:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-03-14 21:21 ` xahlee
2009-03-14 22:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-03-15 14:08 ` tomas
2009-03-16 9:42 ` Richard M Stallman
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