From: Hongxu Chen <leftcopy.chx@gmail.com>
To: Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: WoMan generates different result from man?
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 16:31:57 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k3m7vdvm.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87obbnhxhu.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> (Emanuel Berg's message of "Mon, 03 Jun 2013 20:15:09 +0200")
Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> writes:
> Hongxu Chen <leftcopy.chx@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> BTW, is WoMan popular in Emacs, or Emacsers typically look up
>> info through info?
>
> WoMan also fails to draw tables.
>
> Check out this dump:
>
> http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/man_sv/dumps/woman_man_ascii.png
>
> There you see the man and woman representation of the groff source.
>
> It is absolutely not uncommon to browse the man pages (`M-x man')
> in Emacs. You can navigate them with the familiar shortcuts, you
> can yank quotes into mails or messages, and if you write source
> code, you won't have to leave Emacs (you can have the
> documentation in one window, and the source in another).
>
> The exact same reasoning goes for info.
>
> But there is no reason to put the man pages against info. But are
> useful and you should learn to get comfortable with both.
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:-)
--
Regards,
Hongxu Chen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-06 8:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-03 11:39 WoMan generates different result from man? Hongxu Chen
2013-06-03 12:57 ` Jonathan Groll
2013-06-03 15:20 ` Hongxu Chen
2013-06-03 17:28 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.931.1370272993.22516.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-06-03 16:56 ` Dan Espen
2013-06-03 18:15 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-06-04 0:53 ` Hongxu Chen
[not found] ` <mailman.964.1370307204.22516.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-06-04 1:57 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-06-04 3:31 ` Hongxu Chen
[not found] ` <mailman.969.1370316681.22516.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-06-04 17:08 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-06-06 8:31 ` Hongxu Chen [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.1074.1370507531.22516.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-06-06 9:43 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-06-07 1:11 ` Hongxu Chen
2013-06-03 17:18 ` Glenn Morris
2013-06-03 17:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-06-03 19:34 ` Glenn Morris
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