From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: WoMan generates different result from man? Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 11:43:57 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87fvwvh8v6.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> References: <87obbnh19g.fsf@gmail.com> <87wqqb5p2m.wl%lists@groll.co.za> <87obbnhxhu.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1370536324 8767 80.91.229.3 (6 Jun 2013 16:32:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 16:32:04 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 06 18:32:05 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ukd6X-0005VF-UM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Jun 2013 18:32:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45663 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ukd6X-0005MK-Ey for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Jun 2013 12:32:01 -0400 X-Received: by 10.180.100.167 with SMTP id ez7mr4477129wib.0.1370511875372; Thu, 06 Jun 2013 02:44:35 -0700 (PDT) X-FeedAbuse: http://nntpfeed.proxad.net/abuse.pl feeded by 88.191.116.97 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!h2no6212661wiw.1!news-out.google.com!hv6ni4130wib.1!nntp.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!nntpfeed.proxad.net!dedibox.gegeweb.org!gegeweb.eu!gegeweb.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 30 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: SWN/nubmpQxYKwY7hPy4YA.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:RzXgeTCH21+zRk+j4jsi5yUPyU4= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:199081 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 12:30:46 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:91354 Archived-At: Hongxu Chen writes: > Just find another difference: WoMan might miss some man entry. > For instance, man would find `malloc_stats' but WoMan fails. Is > it because the search path not set right or the flaw of WoMan? > I swear there is no sexism :-) If you notice, that's not really a man page. There is an association to the mallopt man page, which you can confirm with `apropos malloc_stats' that shows mallopt (3) - set memory allocation parameters Now, run `whereis mallopt` mallopt: /usr/share/man/man3/mallopt.3.gz If you open that file in Emacs (no decompress needed), make a search for "malloc_stats". There are no hits! So, how that association is setup beats me, and, as you discovered, it beats WoMan to :) But I'm sure someone on the list knows this. By the way, this is very interesting! *Keep digging!* -- Emanuel Berg - programmer (hire me! CV below) computer projects: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 internet activity: http://home.student.uu.se/embe8573