From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Smerdon Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: problems reading some manual pages in emacs (M-x Woman) Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 06:17:15 -0500 Organization: UseNetServer.com Message-ID: <867iheqszo.fsf@magma.ca> References: <86bq6rqcf4.fsf@magma.ca> <87r6fngcso.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1202566798 13980 80.91.229.12 (9 Feb 2008 14:19:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 14:19:58 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 09 15:20:21 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JNqZ1-0002p1-VG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Feb 2008 15:20:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JNqYY-0003wl-Vh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Feb 2008 09:19:51 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!bigfeed.bellsouth.net!bigfeed3.bellsouth.net!news.bellsouth.net!uns-out.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!pc03.usenetserver.com!PRIMUS.CA-a2iRZhxs1f50M!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Subliminal-Message: God rides a Harley, but the Devil rides a Triumph User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:oI8KU1GrJuMncjInR/3boxS7PFA= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@usenetserver.com Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Trace: 5216447ad8b60747cf8b611242 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:155994 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 09:18:04 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:51372 Archived-At: Tim X writes: > If that all works fine, try starting woman with the 'universal' > arguement. This will force woman to re-build it s man page cache i.e. > > C-u M-x woman Thanks Tim, that was my problem. > As for bookmarking the pages, not sure it will work because bookmarks > are associated with files and while the man page is in a file, to emacs, > its just a woman buffer. > darn, I am a slow learner :) so I frequent the tar, sed, grep and friends man pages all the time, I will just have to manually call them up. Thanks again for the help. -- Peter.