Re: Read man page in Emacs

Re: Read man page in Emacs

[Lennart Borgman]

Tim X wrote:

>You have two choices
>
>M-x man
>
>and 
>
>M-x woman
>  
>
"M-x woman" can work on MS Windows too with GnuWin32 utilities. You then 
have to add the GnuWin23 man path to `woman-manpath'.

Re: Read man page in Emacs

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 11:32:42 +0200
> From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> 
> "M-x woman" can work on MS Windows too with GnuWin32 utilities. You then 
> have to add the GnuWin23 man path to `woman-manpath'.

Did you try that?  GnuWin23 distros have an unfortunate habit to
distribute man pages as foo.1.txt files, and I'm not sure WoMan will
grok such names.  GnuWin23 also removes all traces of overstriking and
underlining from the formatted man pages, so the result displayed by
WoMan might lack fontification.

One could use unformatted man pages instead, of course, if they are
installed...

Re: Read man page in Emacs - woman bug?

[Lennart Borgman]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>>Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 11:32:42 +0200
>>From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
>>Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>>
>>"M-x woman" can work on MS Windows too with GnuWin32 utilities. You then 
>>have to add the GnuWin23 man path to `woman-manpath'.
>>    
>>
>
>Did you try that?  GnuWin23 distros have an unfortunate habit to
>distribute man pages as foo.1.txt files, and I'm not sure WoMan will
>grok such names.  GnuWin23 also removes all traces of overstriking and
>underlining from the formatted man pages, so the result displayed by
>WoMan might lack fontification.
>
>One could use unformatted man pages instead, of course, if they are
>installed...
>
Well, I tried woman-find-file and read about woman-manpath but did not 
actually try that. I did now however and it seems to work. (Though I am 
running the CVS version of Emacs.) To me even those *.txt files looks 
like they are fontified ok, but I am not sure. I am not used to man and 
do not know much about it.

Links seems to work, but I did find a bug I believe. If you open 
man5/texinfo.5 and click the link "tex (1)" emacs seems to loop.

Re: Read man page in Emacs

[Steven Woody]

Tim X <timx@spamto.devnul.com> writes:

> Steven Woody <anti-spam.narkewoody@gmail.com.dont-post-to> writes:
>
>> while i can read info in Emacs, how to i read a man page in Emacs?
>> 
>> -- 
>> steven woody (id: narke)
>> 
>> Pepper...is hot and scorches, just like the sun
>> 
>> 	- Politiki kouzina (2003)
>
> You have two choices
>
> M-x man

thanks! i am appology for asking such a stupid question.

>
> and 
>
> M-x woman

but, what's this? 

>
> Tim
>
> -- 
> Tim Cross
> The e-mail address on this message is FALSE (obviously!). My real e-mail is
> to a company in Australia called rapttech and my login is tcross - if you 
> really need to send mail, you should be able to work it out!

-- 
steven woody (id: narke)

Celine: Well, who says relationships have to last forever? 

	- Before Sunrise (1995)

Re: Read man page in Emacs

[Tim X]

Steven Woody <anti-spam.narkewoody@gmail.com.dont-post-to> writes:

> Tim X <timx@spamto.devnul.com> writes:
> 
> > Steven Woody <anti-spam.narkewoody@gmail.com.dont-post-to> writes:
> >
> >> while i can read info in Emacs, how to i read a man page in Emacs?
> >> 
> >> -- 
> >> steven woody (id: narke)
> >> 
> >> Pepper...is hot and scorches, just like the sun
> >> 
> >> 	- Politiki kouzina (2003)
> >
> > You have two choices
> >
> > M-x man
> 
> thanks! i am appology for asking such a stupid question.
> 
> >
> > and 
> >
> > M-x woman
> 
> but, what's this? 
> 

Try C-h f woman <return> or just run the command - it will be pretty
obvious once you do!

Tim

-- 
Tim Cross
The e-mail address on this message is FALSE (obviously!). My real e-mail is
to a company in Australia called rapttech and my login is tcross - if you 
really need to send mail, you should be able to work it out!

Re: Read man page in Emacs

[Steven Woody]

Tim X <timx@spamto.devnul.com> writes:

> Steven Woody <anti-spam.narkewoody@gmail.com.dont-post-to> writes:
>
>> Tim X <timx@spamto.devnul.com> writes:
>> 
>> > Steven Woody <anti-spam.narkewoody@gmail.com.dont-post-to> writes:
>> >
>> >> while i can read info in Emacs, how to i read a man page in Emacs?
>> >> 
>> >> -- 
>> >> steven woody (id: narke)
>> >> 
>> >> Pepper...is hot and scorches, just like the sun
>> >> 
>> >> 	- Politiki kouzina (2003)
>> >
>> > You have two choices
>> >
>> > M-x man
>> 
>> thanks! i am appology for asking such a stupid question.
>> 
>> >
>> > and 
>> >
>> > M-x woman
>> 
>> but, what's this? 
>> 
>
> Try C-h f woman <return> or just run the command - it will be pretty
> obvious once you do!

ok, thanks, though i found the first time run is ver slow. but it's still a
neat tool.

>
> Tim
>
> -- 
> Tim Cross
> The e-mail address on this message is FALSE (obviously!). My real e-mail is
> to a company in Australia called rapttech and my login is tcross - if you 
> really need to send mail, you should be able to work it out!

-- 
steven woody (id: narke)

Celine: Well, who says relationships have to last forever? 

	- Before Sunrise (1995)

Re: Read man page in Emacs

[David Kastrup]

Steven Woody <anti-spam.narkewoody@gmail.com.dont-post-to> writes:

> Tim X <timx@spamto.devnul.com> writes:
>
>> Try C-h f woman <return> or just run the command - it will be pretty
>> obvious once you do!
>
> ok, thanks, though i found the first time run is ver slow.

I fixed that pretty much in the developer version of Emacs.  It is
conceivable that the woman.el from there would also work in Emacs
21.4.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum