From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
Cc: spacibba@aol.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: man integration with tramp
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2020 15:34:27 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83lfizeucs.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ime4ca00.fsf@gmx.de> (message from Michael Albinus on Fri, 31 Jul 2020 11:24:47 +0200)
> From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
> Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2020 11:24:47 +0200
> Cc: spacibba@aol.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> Yes, I've seen this in the Commentary section of woman.el. Especially,
> the lack of the eqn(1) and tbl(1) preprocessor support is mentioned.
>
> I have no idea how serious this limitation in practice is.
I think it's pretty serious. We had some bug reports against woman.el
during the recent years, which all boiled down to insufficient support
of modern man pages.
> I'm trying to use woman.el as basis for support of remote man pages,
> because a short review of man.el gave me the impression that it takes
> more than just replacing `call-process' by `process-file' at one place.
I understand. If doing so will solve enough use cases, it's a good
compromise, of course.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-31 12:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20200730044554.obcvownwrmv4du7m.ref@ergus>
2020-07-30 4:45 ` man integration with tramp Ergus
2020-07-30 17:58 ` Michael Albinus
2020-07-30 19:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-07-31 9:24 ` Michael Albinus
2020-07-31 12:34 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-07-31 12:41 ` Michael Albinus
2023-10-07 11:42 ` Max Nikulin
2023-10-07 12:00 ` Michael Albinus
2023-10-07 16:37 ` Max Nikulin
2023-10-07 16:49 ` Michael Albinus
2023-10-08 3:02 ` Max Nikulin
2023-10-08 8:06 ` Michael Albinus
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