From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Max Nikulin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.orgmode Subject: Re: Completion of links to man pages Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2023 10:40:10 +0700 Message-ID: References: <87sf6pi9fn.fsf@localhost> <87jzs1i6aa.fsf@localhost> <87v8blgi5w.fsf@localhost> <83sf6p2fgu.fsf@gnu.org> <87pm1tggbd.fsf@localhost> <83lech2dsd.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="11861"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 06 06:43:33 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 1qocgX-0002vu-Ek for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 06 Oct 2023 06:43:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qocfq-0007LU-A0; Fri, 06 Oct 2023 00:42:50 -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 1qobhQ-0004lR-Rf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Oct 2023 23:40:24 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qobhP-00053u-4b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Oct 2023 23:40:24 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qobhM-0009M9-PZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Oct 2023 05:40:20 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Content-Language: en-US, ru-RU In-Reply-To: <83lech2dsd.fsf@gnu.org> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: 28 X-Spam_score: 2.8 X-Spam_bar: ++ X-Spam_report: (2.8 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD=1, FORGED_MUA_MOZILLA=2.309, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN=0.249, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.9, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 06 Oct 2023 00:42:49 -0400 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:311317 gmane.emacs.orgmode:157602 Archived-At: On 06/10/2023 00:13, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: Ihor Radchenko >> Do you mean that woman.el will be obsoleted? > > AFAIU, it already is, de-facto. Unless someone steps forward and > volunteers to develop woman.el so as to add all the many missing > features that Groff has added during the last years, woman.el will > continue to bitrot. 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. I have realized that namely `man' is recommended: (info "(emacs) Man Page") > Note that M-x woman doesn’t yet support the latest features of modern > man pages, so we recommend using M-x man if that is available on your > system. Absence of an active hyperlink to WoMan manual at https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Man-Page.html might be considered as a means to discourage its usage.