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.orgmode,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Completion of links to man pages Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2023 19:37:05 +0300 Message-ID: <83sf6p2fgu.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87sf6pi9fn.fsf@localhost> <87jzs1i6aa.fsf@localhost> <87v8blgi5w.fsf@localhost> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="2991"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: manikulin@gmail.com, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ihor Radchenko Original-X-From: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 05 18:37:49 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: geo-emacs-orgmode@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 1qoRMC-0000Z0-Uo for geo-emacs-orgmode@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 05 Oct 2023 18:37:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qoRLR-0001hX-Ps; Thu, 05 Oct 2023 12:37:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qoRLP-0001eS-Fo; Thu, 05 Oct 2023 12:36:59 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qoRLP-00015N-6x; Thu, 05 Oct 2023 12:36:59 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=aSufTp/Dl+zMq+x70oPhEoXAvRrnP+f2DKxv2KyRHes=; b=MOloXzgJGiry luBAf/WNn8/dGJ4MMXwr5v28urnUlQ5WCWOl5FGA/NYLfc/w8bSUsz6kybGlxfMEHeE21B6Znb6XT 4xbNhansNBqa6yuz7VfnwpXRLAhNkad+T4DkpcZatv0nOyvU40/7Mt1gduNw8eLco0aGkqTKMRdJy 6Uxkx6bzDRy8uem61vIjDbmjaP2ZHsnoR0qT6Duyss73ZOiEDWOv0VYF7MlOMEIhs9QHgR45bwN9I DGlnRx+vSzhPfy6nd/z7E6Da0uu3w1wqBqTfVkkkbTvpqcWW9aJ3yjw4jpKGZk2AXC26iw7wHQ+F0 hhp65CMn9ZmduJCAKDQvbg==; In-Reply-To: <87v8blgi5w.fsf@localhost> (message from Ihor Radchenko on Thu, 05 Oct 2023 16:15:07 +0000) X-BeenThere: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.orgmode:157593 gmane.emacs.devel:311306 Archived-At: > From: Ihor Radchenko > Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2023 16:15:07 +0000 > > Max Nikulin writes: > > > World has changed since woman.el was developed. Are there systems with > > man pages available, but no man command nowadays? Android with man pages > > copied by its user? > > MS-DOS, for example. What we here call "MNS-DOS" (which is actually the DJGPP development environment used to compile the MS-DOS build of Emacs) does have the man command: http://www.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2apps/man13br2.zip > Or old Windows versions. The Windows port of the above is available from the ezwinports site. > > In WoMan I have not found a way to open directly without an > > additional prompt for the page section. > > > man.el has a lot of options how to select window for a man page. It is > > not the case for woman. > > ... For Org internal link types same/other window is > > controlled by prefix argument (however `org-open-at-point' doc string > > describes another meaning of prefix argument: if link should be opened > > in Emacs or an external application). I am unsure what is proper > > behavior of man links opened from Org, should Org try to make behavior > > consistent or it should let packages to act as they wish. > > These two sound like feature requests for WoMan. These features might also > benefit Org, if implemented. I don't think woman.el is being developed, or is it?