From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.orgmode Subject: Re: Completion of links to man pages Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2023 17:37:42 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87sf6pi9fn.fsf@localhost> <87jzs1i6aa.fsf@localhost> <87v8blgi5w.fsf@localhost> <83sf6p2fgu.fsf@gnu.org> <87pm1tggbd.fsf@localhost> <83lech2dsd.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="2672"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org To: Max Nikulin Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 06 23:38:49 2023 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 1qosX2-0000T1-TA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 06 Oct 2023 23:38:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qosW1-00023H-2X; Fri, 06 Oct 2023 17:37:45 -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 1qosVz-00022n-Gr; Fri, 06 Oct 2023 17:37:43 -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 1qosVz-0007Dp-8x; Fri, 06 Oct 2023 17:37:43 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=+vS9Ilwp8z2sHRcb2iwTlR/xMzG8Qt39/TClAy6wRsU=; b=cjA2Nb1zIzNn oEyz2JDuM6QQaR6j0k1Mn+up5RjZIfGS3QcwCsaiIecxTntrsI0eHedZCoAx/tOvwl7bAjKsNfCnq Hp3gl4/9fpUZYmuJAyBVmsTnGBwL+ZVnxy9kuXeitFqf/3YiAyMWOVt7/1cc17xS/WUHoZJEunZkM 41s9G2D2GH1ZCDXGoeQtBLUox6h8m24aGChiw83hLeRNuVYYSrLhUAe9ichTB+1jdsG8klfR+gC17 LaxM5qaG0YVcdr7a66waBzLRHS+j29spR92UK7OE+0rR8dRwjglC3yTcbB1gotrzPOGTbhVceGcZj ZcGoORyG5q4k+OuqcOihZQ==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qosVy-0003ZY-Pi; Fri, 06 Oct 2023 17:37:42 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Max Nikulin on Fri, 6 Oct 2023 10:40:10 +0700) 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:311335 gmane.emacs.orgmode:157613 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > It seems, I was not the only person who had an impression that `woman' > is the Emacs way to read man pages. I have no idea concerning its > origin, perhaps some pages and comments I had seen on the net. This suggests that running M-x woman should display a message saying to use M-x man instead. The message could add this The name M-x man refers to the old Unix command `man', which is short for "manual". Its purpose is to read pages of the manual. Mx- woman was a joke based on that name. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)