From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Fixes to let woman.el deal with MANPATH_MAP elements
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 18:07:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85ircqbmdw.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uaby2bmvq.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat\, 24 Mar 2007 18\:57\:13 +0200")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
>> Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 16:09:41 +0100
>>
>> Are there actually other users of "woman"?
>
> Yes, there are.
>
>> While I tested the fixes myself on GNU/Linux, woman.el does a _lot_
>> of Windows/Cygwin centric stuff
>
> That's because Windows systems don't come with a `man' command
> installed.
I don't understand. woman does not use any `man' command on other
operating systems either, so this is quite orthogonal to the operating
system support.
One interesting question is what kind of manpath.config one can expect
to be found on Cygwin systems when there is no actual `man' command
using it.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-24 17:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-23 10:29 Fixes to let woman.el deal with MANPATH_MAP elements David Kastrup
2007-03-23 14:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-03-23 18:34 ` David Kastrup
2007-03-23 20:03 ` David Kastrup
2007-03-23 20:12 ` Drew Adams
2007-03-23 20:25 ` David Kastrup
2007-03-23 21:09 ` David Kastrup
2007-03-23 18:00 ` Richard Stallman
2007-03-24 15:09 ` David Kastrup
2007-03-24 16:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-03-24 17:07 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2007-03-24 17:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-03-31 15:25 ` David Kastrup
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