Re: Links in WoMan buffer should not call `man'

[Michael Welsh Duggan <md5i@cs.cmu.edu>]

Michael Welsh Duggan <md5i@cs.cmu.edu> writes:

> Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org> writes:
>
>>>     the last command typed in the woman's dedicated frame fails with the error
>>>     signalled by string-match:
>>>
>>>       Man-translate-references: Wrong type argument: arrayp, nil
>>>
>>> How about debugging it?  This sounds like something straightforward
>>> to debug.
>>
>> I narrowed it to the simplest case.  This error occurs only when `M-x man'
>> is executed in the *Messages* buffer.  (The shortest key sequence to
>> reproduce it: `C-h e M-x man RET man RET')
>
> I don't know what the correct fix for the underlying problem is (i.e.,
> the fact that this doesn't error out in other contexts), but the
> problem can be solved by fixing the Man-name-regexp, which is currenly
> invalid.  The following is a patch for that.

I take my original statement back.  The character I removed was not a
hyphen as I expected, but rather a soft-hyphen (U+00AD).  On the other
hand, the fact that removing this character fixed the problem might
narrow down the problem a bit more.  I will now look into this a bit
more deeply.

-- 
Michael Welsh Duggan
(md5i@cs.cmu.edu)