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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: 9447@debbugs.gnu.org, eric.hanchrow@gmail.com
Subject: bug#9447: 24.0.50; woman loses single quotes
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2011 10:24:15 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83r53q5gbk.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xzwrdinrcg.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>

> From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2011 02:48:47 -0400
> Cc: Eric Hanchrow <eric.hanchrow@gmail.com>
> 
> I sort of wonder what the point of woman.el is. It has a punny name, but
> is basically a partial, buggy, reimplementation of a very standard
> external program that is surely installed on any system where man pages
> are used.

You obviously forget the use case of Emacs on MS-Windows.  Man pages
come with many ported packages (including Emacs ;-), but I know of
only 2 decent version of the `man' program available for Windows: one
requires Cygwin to be installed, the other was written by yours truly,
and is not available as a Windows binary in any public site that I
know of (although the sources are available under GPL and can be
easily compiled on Windows).  Thus woman.el.

> Eg I note that it doesn't render man.1 correctly on my current
> system, with the current trunk doing a worse job than Emacs 23.3 does.

Patches are very welcome.





  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-09  7:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-06  1:07 bug#9447: 24.0.50; woman loses single quotes Eric Hanchrow
2011-09-07  0:37 ` Glenn Morris
2011-09-09  6:48   ` Glenn Morris
2011-09-09  7:24     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2011-09-09  7:34       ` Glenn Morris
2011-09-09  7:58         ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-09 12:25           ` Andy Moreton
2011-09-09 13:56             ` Eli Zaretskii

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