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: [ELPA] New package: perl-doc Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2022 08:53:46 +0300 Message-ID: <83sfmlail1.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87a68upm3w.fsf@hajtower> <875yjhdg5q.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="14208"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: haj@posteo.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Visuwesh Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 28 07:57:04 2022 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 1oGwW8-0003Xf-DL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2022 07:57:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48214 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oGwW7-0004rn-0L for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2022 01:57:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:49676) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oGwSp-0001U4-P4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2022 01:53:39 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:44598) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oGwSo-0001sS-Lp; Thu, 28 Jul 2022 01:53:39 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=MIME-version:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: Date; bh=64HSKzpXLVO4bXqd+eMpYWcZpRCfC50KrWvS9eQk0DY=; b=NpmtuLmXskJbCPjeKMcE RHDwU4QmAz5qDW2Z8YOaHOcxtodklUp+Z66noCTmQPQn7ViZ9e4rjM0sGmflrcxYM857NTf4iHRBq FU2I8ZkmKaaeJNyiyzdAVKVuK/cq15XhZLHKJx2yT3LXYvPAs81CyuVpCGSaot09sSL6FeflyemSz FilBaTVwd6RvHDQHscybsOCpZsIzh9rqJuGFS7I+o5ry1WTPcSLYJDG9ypNPF4xFJIhv0oC++oKFm Owo2UdQIAYzqmdO01FIHLStmWf+J/dohBKL1+g1LgL08Gn/RTss/5DNFlsrB+LCTYzii02cRW3kO+ vF07nyHxcG3eAg==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=2836 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oGwSo-0003LE-25; Thu, 28 Jul 2022 01:53:38 -0400 In-Reply-To: <875yjhdg5q.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Visuwesh on Thu, 28 Jul 2022 09:47:53 +0530) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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:292763 Archived-At: > From: Visuwesh > Cc: Emacs Developer List > Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2022 09:47:53 +0530 > > [புதன் ஜூலை 27, 2022] Harald Jörg wrote: > > > the motivation to write this library came from two sources: In a Perl > > online meeting an Emacs user noted that the usual function to read Perl > > documentation in Emacs, cperl-perldoc, does not work on Platforms which > > don't have 'man' (notably, Windows). > > What about woman? It should be reasonably fast for most manpages. It cannot format many modern man pages because it wasn't extended to support the roff directives added in recent years. Patches to add that are welcome. P.S. A simple clone of 'man' for Windows is available from ezwinports site.