From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Fixes to let woman.el deal with MANPATH_MAP elements Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 18:07:55 +0100 Message-ID: <85ircqbmdw.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <85tzwc2qyi.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85r6rebruy.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1174756145 5915 80.91.229.12 (24 Mar 2007 17:09:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 17:09:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 24 18:08:57 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HV9jc-00028n-C6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 18:08:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HV9le-0005Lq-EY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 12:11:02 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HV9lb-0005Li-Cc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 13:10:59 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HV9la-0005LW-VY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 13:10:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HV9la-0005LT-Sg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 12:10:58 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HV9jY-0004zy-4w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 13:08:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HV9hX-00055J-Iv; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 13:06:47 -0400 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id B609B1C4D3DA; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 18:07:55 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat\, 24 Mar 2007 18\:57\:13 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.96 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:68486 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: David Kastrup >> 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