From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#27833: 25.2; Add support for manpath command to woman.el Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 18:17:15 +0300 Message-ID: <83d18n5itg.fsf@gnu.org> References: <871sp4xhq8.fsf@sc3d.org> <83shhj5l6r.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1501082300 20912 195.159.176.226 (26 Jul 2017 15:18:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 15:18:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 27833@debbugs.gnu.org To: Reuben Thomas Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 26 17:18:15 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1daO4h-000517-90 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Jul 2017 17:18:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38756 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1daO4m-0004Ag-QM for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Jul 2017 11:18:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33414) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1daO4c-0004AW-MF for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Jul 2017 11:18:12 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1daO4Y-00045E-LG for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Jul 2017 11:18:06 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:54865) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1daO4Y-000455-Hj for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Jul 2017 11:18:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1daO4Y-0001CA-CT for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Jul 2017 11:18:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 15:18:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 27833 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 27833-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B27833.15010822634565 (code B ref 27833); Wed, 26 Jul 2017 15:18:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 27833) by debbugs.gnu.org; 26 Jul 2017 15:17:43 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57542 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1daO4F-0001BZ-BG for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 26 Jul 2017 11:17:43 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:42112) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1daO4D-0001BN-L6 for 27833@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 26 Jul 2017 11:17:41 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1daO44-0003q9-IF for 27833@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 26 Jul 2017 11:17:36 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:41459) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1daO44-0003q4-ET; Wed, 26 Jul 2017 11:17:32 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:1467 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1daO43-0005sq-Gv; Wed, 26 Jul 2017 11:17:32 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Reuben Thomas on Wed, 26 Jul 2017 15:33:52 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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 Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:135020 Archived-At: > From: Reuben Thomas > Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 15:33:52 +0100 > Cc: 27833@debbugs.gnu.org > > On top of that, I think we semi-deprecated woman.el because AFAIR it > cannot support newer roff features which are abundant in recent man > pages. So I wonder what kind of use case do you have that on the one > hand needs woman.el, and OTOH finds its manpath emulation lacking. > > ​​I explained that: man -k does not support man directories lacking a database. Yes, but why not extend man.el by using manpath? Is there a problem that I don't see?