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: Mon, 03 Jun 2013 20:15:09 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87obbnhxhu.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> References: <87obbnh19g.fsf@gmail.com> <87wqqb5p2m.wl%lists@groll.co.za> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1370283787 20737 80.91.229.3 (3 Jun 2013 18:23:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2013 18:23:07 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 03 20:23:09 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 1UjZPO-0001sJ-RN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Jun 2013 20:23:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47592 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UjZPO-0005TK-DE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Jun 2013 14:23:06 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin3!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 28 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:c6a83gOKBJUP/mH7ESpUvy5i7KE= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:199004 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 03 Jun 2013 14:22:54 -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:91271 Archived-At: Hongxu Chen 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