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: Sun, 16 Oct 2016 20:54:02 +0300 Message-ID: <83shrwyybp.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87y41qxvki.fsf@udel.edu> <83mvi62lsh.fsf@gnu.org> <20161016145904.GA8417@holos.localdomain> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1476640549 30843 195.159.176.226 (16 Oct 2016 17:55:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2016 17:55:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Mark Oteiza Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 16 19:55:45 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 1bvpel-0005uh-Gb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Oct 2016 19:55:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57288 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bvpen-0004aR-Ix for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Oct 2016 13:55:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34063) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bvpdQ-0004El-1C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Oct 2016 13:54:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bvpdM-0003gW-5E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Oct 2016 13:54:08 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:60360) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bvpdM-0003gM-1f; Sun, 16 Oct 2016 13:54:04 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:2631 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1bvpdL-0002Sq-8R; Sun, 16 Oct 2016 13:54:03 -0400 In-reply-to: <20161016145904.GA8417@holos.localdomain> (message from Mark Oteiza on Sun, 16 Oct 2016 10:59:04 -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:208333 Archived-At: > Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2016 10:59:04 -0400 > From: Mark Oteiza > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > > - 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. > > I meant instead of man(1). The stand-alone Info reader can display man pages, but it calls 'man' for that and displays what 'man' outputs. I'm not aware of any others.