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: Tue, 04 Jun 2013 11:31:08 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y5aqpn5v.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878v2q7i46.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> (Emanuel Berg's message of "Tue, 04 Jun 2013 03:57:29 +0200")
Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> writes:
> Hongxu Chen <leftcopy.chx@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I am using WoMan since the default `evil-lookup-func' in
>> Evil-mode (well, I am not a true Emacser) is woman, and when I
>>
>> (setq evil-lookup-func #'woman)
>>
>> It doesn't work as expected and I would not spend too much to
>> configure it right.
>
> Evil-mode? Haha, what is that?
>
> I just hit `M-x man', what does that get you?
OK, I've changed the keymaps for normal state in evil-mode to `man'(aha,
I didn't even notice that I could do this!)
>
>> Another concern is that while using `man' in emacs(which
>> actually call external program `man'), there seems a delay when
>> I would get a relatively big man page (such as `gcc'; I know I
>> should switch to info' in this sense, but I am so customed to
>> man in Vim...).
>
> Again, there is nothing wrong with browsing the man pages in
> Emacs, on the contrary. From where did you get that idea?
>
> But, now that you say it, `M-x man RET gcc RET' takes a couple of
> seconds in Emacs, but not so with man (the shell pager). But 1)
> gcc is a very big manpage, and 2) you don't bring it up every day,
> and you don't do it repeatedly. If you get stressed out over that,
> perhaps you should program yourself, and not computers :)
> Seriously, it depends what computer you have, of course. I have an
> old laptop and for me that short-seconds pause is very
> endurable. But yes - it is interesting that the Emacs mode is that
> much slower than the shell tool.
There is another problem: when using `man', it would firstly catch the
symbol/word at point by default. When there is NO manpage for this
symbol, it still displays as a candidate(I am using ido-ubiquitous and
don't know the behavior in other cases). And when I hit RET, it would
report like this:
error in process sentinel: user-error: Can't find the time_t manpage
This is annoying. But `woman' would ignore the symbol where the cursor
locates(it would not display `time_t' in this case) and I am informed
ahead that I cannot get the manpage of this symbol.
Also, the matching rule is confusing(possibly only for ido), for
instance, when I run `M-x man RET git', `git' does not appear at the
front of all candidates until I additionally add `(1)' (hence I have to
type the whole word `git(1)'), which is a bit inconvenient.
--
Regards,
Hongxu Chen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-04 3:31 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 [this message]
[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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