From: Peter Smerdon <psmerdon@magma.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: problems reading some manual pages in emacs (M-x Woman)
Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 06:17:15 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <867iheqszo.fsf@magma.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87r6fngcso.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au
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.
--
Peter.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-09 11:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-08 23:02 problems reading some manual pages in emacs (M-x Woman) Peter Smerdon
2008-02-09 1:04 ` Tim X
2008-02-09 11:17 ` Peter Smerdon [this message]
2008-02-09 9:35 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.7201.1202549731.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-02-10 21:54 ` Peter Smerdon
2008-02-10 23:16 ` Peter Dyballa
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