From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] teach browse-url about man pages Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2016 09:01:18 +0300 Message-ID: <83mvi62lsh.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87y41qxvki.fsf@udel.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1476511346 25550 195.159.176.226 (15 Oct 2016 06:02:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2016 06:02:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Mark Oteiza Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 15 08:02:22 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1bvI2m-0003xk-5K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Oct 2016 08:02:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50577 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bvI2k-0008OH-QB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Oct 2016 02:02:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58151) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bvI2E-0008OA-Et for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Oct 2016 02:01:31 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bvI29-0001p6-DB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Oct 2016 02:01:29 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:40241) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bvI29-0001oj-9v; Sat, 15 Oct 2016 02:01:25 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:3193 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1bvI26-0000Jy-St; Sat, 15 Oct 2016 02:01:23 -0400 In-reply-to: <87y41qxvki.fsf@udel.edu> (message from Mark Oteiza on Fri, 14 Oct 2016 21:14:21 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:208276 Archived-At: > From: Mark Oteiza > Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2016 21:14:21 -0400 > > We should be able to browse to man page urls within emacs. I think it would be a nice feature, yes. > Not sure about a couple things: > > - whether something like browse-url-man-viewer should be added. Are > there some other commonly used man page reader? I don't know. You mean, except man.el and woman.el? I think these two should be enough. (Actually, woman.el doesn't support many modern man pages, so it's only a distant second.) If you mean something else, please tell. > - the :version This will go to master, so the version is 26.1. > but otherwise, pretty straightforward, mostly derived from the mailto: > bits. If no one objects, please push to master in a week or so. Thanks.