Re: problems reading some manual pages in emacs (M-x Woman)

[Peter Smerdon <psmerdon@magma.ca>]

Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null> writes:

> If that all works fine, try starting woman with the 'universal'
> arguement. This will force woman to re-build it s man page cache i.e.
>
> C-u M-x woman

Thanks Tim, that was my problem.

> As for bookmarking the pages, not sure it will work because bookmarks
> are associated with files and while the man page is in a file, to emacs,
> its just a woman buffer.
>

darn, I am a slow learner :) so I frequent the tar, sed, grep and friends man
pages all the time, I will just have to manually call them up. Thanks
again for the help.

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Peter.