Re: xdisaster

[Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null>]

Sean Sieger <sean.sieger@gmail.com> writes:

> Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null> writes:
>
>    in emacs, to read man pages, use either M-x man or M-x woman. Both
>    have slightly different features. I find woman great for longer and
>    more in-depth man reading sessions, but M-x man is great when I
>    just want to check something like command line switches etc.
>
> Thank you Tim.  M-x woman The thing that bugs me about M-x woman is
> that it starts another instance of emacs; is there a way to prevent
> this?
>

Woman doesn't start another 'instance' of emacs. It will open up in its own
frame when running under X. You can change this behavior by setting the
variable woman-use-own-frame to nil. (Note that under emacs terminology, a
'frame' is similar to what is often referred to as a window by other systems). 

Either run woman (to make sure it has been loaded) and then do

M-x customize-group <RET> woman <RET> and find the appropriate entry (I believe
its under the subgroup woman-interface). Alternatively, just a 

(setq woman-use-own-frame nil)

in your .emacs will probably also work (though I'd highly recommend using the customize
interface). 

Tim

,----[ C-h v woman-use-own-frame RET ]
| woman-use-own-frame is a variable defined in `woman.el'.
| Its value is t
| 
| 
| Documentation:
| *If non-nil then use a dedicated frame for displaying WoMan windows.
| Only useful when run on a graphic display such as X or MS-Windows.
| 
| You can customize this variable.
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