From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Espen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: WoMan generates different result from man? Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2013 12:56:48 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: 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 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1370279601 5964 80.91.229.3 (3 Jun 2013 17:13:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2013 17:13:21 +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 19:13:25 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 1UjYJv-0005DS-Lp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Jun 2013 19:13:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59835 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UjYJv-0002zL-5j for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Jun 2013 13:13:23 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin3!goblin.stu.neva.ru!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder2.enfer-du-nord.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx05.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 52 Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="b8816fa7300cd668c1c8ea38fc847e8a"; logging-data="5310"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/vpsYT/Z2s1uI7xw937kKtvvOlHhb41Bc=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:wmCucy5YsmiSltDHColoPHLMdu8= sha1:Edm4j4LRyW13TT6e20qobjFwcrQ= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:198998 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 03 Jun 2013 13:12:43 -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:91265 Archived-At: Hongxu Chen writes: > Jonathan Groll writes: > >> On Mon, 03 Jun 2013 19:39:07 +0800, Hongxu Chen wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I am using `WoMan' other than man to read manpages. But I find there >>> are some slight differences when reading the content. Take the >>> manpage of `man' as an example: >>> >>> WoMan parses the result of the section number introduction like this: >>> >>> 1@Executable programs or shell commands 2@System calls >>> (functions provided by the kernel) 3@Library calls (functions within >>> program libraries) 4@Special files (usually found in /dev) 5@File >>> formats and conventions eg /etc/passwd 6@Games 7@Miscellaneous >>> (including macro packages and conventions), e.g. man(7), >>> groff(7) 8@System administration commands (usually only for >>> root) 9@Kernel routines [Non standard] >>> >>> While the result generates by `man' does have `@' but spaces ` ', >>> just as follows: >>> 1 Executable programs or shell commands >>> 2 System calls (functions provided by the kernel) >>> 3 Library calls (functions within program libraries) >>> 4 Special files (usually found in /dev) >>> 5 File formats and conventions eg /etc/passwd >>> 6 Games >>> 7 Miscellaneous (including macro packages and conventions), e.g. man(7), >>> groff(7) >>> 8 System administration commands (usually only for root) >>> 9 Kernel routines [Non standard] >>> >>> The margin in WoMan also seems a little odd. >>> >>> So is this a known issue? >> >> Yes. Women are from venus. > Well, WoMan is really different from man... > Are there some workarounds to remedy? > > BTW, is WoMan popular in Emacs, or Emacsers typically look up info > through info? I have no way of telling, but stopped using woman and use M-x man instead. If the man page doesn't help and it mentions info, I'll try info. -- Dan Espen