From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: Emacs inventing system documentation Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 11:31:04 -0700 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <401016E8.2010507@yahoo.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1074796716 7472 80.91.224.253 (22 Jan 2004 18:38:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 18:38:36 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 22 19:38:27 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Ajjik-00017C-00 for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 19:38:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AjjhX-0003LH-Js for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 13:37:11 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AjjgB-0002g3-Lf for bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 13:35:47 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AjjdL-0001Ki-E3 for bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 13:33:23 -0500 Original-Received: from [132.239.1.58] (helo=mailbox6.ucsd.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.24) id 1Ajjbg-0000jH-Ii for bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 13:31:08 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.fu-berlin.de (mail.fu-berlin.de [160.45.11.165]) by mailbox6.ucsd.edu (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i0MIV2AL042769 for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 10:31:02 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by mail.fu-berlin.de (Smail3.2.0.98) from Curry.ZEDAT.FU-Berlin.DE (160.45.10.36) with esmtp id ; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 19:31:02 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: by Curry.ZEDAT.FU-Berlin.DE (Smail3.2.0.98) from news.fu-berlin.de with bsmtp id ; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 19:31:02 +0100 (MET) Original-To: gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org Original-Path: 170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Original-Lines: 25 X-Orig-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 X-Orig-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1074796261 21874378 170.207.51.80 ([82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us X-Spamscanner: mailbox6.ucsd.edu (v1.4 Dec 3 2003 15:07:19, 1.4/5.0 2.60) X-MailScanner: PASSED (v1.2.8 26697 i0MIV2AL042769 mailbox6.ucsd.edu) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:6689 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:6689 Reuben Thomas wrote: > I'm using Emacs 21.3.1, and have noticed that from time to time, when I > use M-x man foo RET to get a man page, the man page is displayed along > with a message "foo man page made up". I don't want Emacs inventing man > pages! I'd rather it just displayed the man page I have installed, or gave > an error if it didn't exist. (Are you joking? There's no smiley in your message, so I guess you're not.) That message is displayed by the Man-fontify-manpage function, whose doc string says: | Convert overstriking and underlining to the correct fonts. | Same for the ANSI bold and normal escape sequences. "Make up" is used here in the publishing sense: converting markup into presentation. -- Kevin Rodgers