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From: Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: WoMan generates different result from man?
Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2013 20:15:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87obbnhxhu.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.931.1370272993.22516.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

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.

-- 
Emanuel Berg - programmer (hire me! CV below)
computer projects: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573
internet activity: http://home.student.uu.se/embe8573


  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-06-03 18:15 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 [this message]
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
     [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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