From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: man integration with tramp Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2020 15:34:27 +0300 Message-ID: <83lfizeucs.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20200730044554.obcvownwrmv4du7m.ref@ergus> <20200730044554.obcvownwrmv4du7m@ergus> <87r1ssdgw7.fsf@gmx.de> <83tuxoeqtu.fsf@gnu.org> <87ime4ca00.fsf@gmx.de> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="14617"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: spacibba@aol.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Michael Albinus Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 31 14:35:14 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1k1UFl-0003iB-S1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2020 14:35:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42322 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1k1UFk-0001It-Tn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2020 08:35:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:54454) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1k1UFH-0000sI-3C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Jul 2020 08:34:43 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:41129) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1k1UFG-0001MV-82; Fri, 31 Jul 2020 08:34:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4075 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1k1UFE-0002iL-N3; Fri, 31 Jul 2020 08:34:41 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87ime4ca00.fsf@gmx.de> (message from Michael Albinus on Fri, 31 Jul 2020 11:24:47 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:253360 Archived-At: > From: Michael Albinus > Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2020 11:24:47 +0200 > Cc: spacibba@aol.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > Yes, I've seen this in the Commentary section of woman.el. Especially, > the lack of the eqn(1) and tbl(1) preprocessor support is mentioned. > > I have no idea how serious this limitation in practice is. I think it's pretty serious. We had some bug reports against woman.el during the recent years, which all boiled down to insufficient support of modern man pages. > I'm trying to use woman.el as basis for support of remote man pages, > because a short review of man.el gave me the impression that it takes > more than just replacing `call-process' by `process-file' at one place. I understand. If doing so will solve enough use cases, it's a good compromise, of course.