From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Fixes to let woman.el deal with MANPATH_MAP elements Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 19:39:23 +0200 Message-ID: References: <85tzwc2qyi.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85r6rebruy.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85ircqbmdw.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1174758035 17461 80.91.229.12 (24 Mar 2007 17:40:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 17:40:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 24 18:40:27 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 1HVAE6-0000Ol-82 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 18:40:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HVAG8-0007On-Di for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 12:42:32 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HVAFE-00068F-Ld for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 13:41:36 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HVAFC-00067X-R9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 13:41:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HVAFC-00067T-Ov for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 12:41:34 -0500 Original-Received: from romy.inter.net.il ([213.8.233.24]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HVAD9-00017i-27; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 13:39:27 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-200-243.inter.net.il [80.230.200.243]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id HLM11700 (AUTH halo1); Sat, 24 Mar 2007 19:39:27 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <85ircqbmdw.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (message from David Kastrup on Sat, 24 Mar 2007 18:07:55 +0100) X-detected-kernel: FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.4) (2) 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:68488 Archived-At: > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: David Kastrup > Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 18:07:55 +0100 > > >> 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. Sorry for being unclear. What I meant to say was that one of the main motivations for having woman.el in the first place was the absence of the `man' command from a typical Windows box. So woman.el, at least initially, was heavily biased towards MS-Windows users. > 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. Woman.el can be (and is) used even when `man' does exist. Some of the reasons are stated in the commentary section. Of course, if `man' is absent, I wouldn't expect any manpath.config to be present, either. But I don't use Cygwin, so perhaps you should wait for someone who does to chime in.