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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Meiyo Peng <meiyo.peng@gmail.com>
Cc: 23956@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23956: 25.1.50; Underscore display error in WoMan mode
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2021 19:47:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <875yxnpc50.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87inwbnukm.fsf@gmail.com> (Meiyo Peng's message of "Tue, 12 Jul 2016 16:12:41 +0800")

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Meiyo Peng <meiyo.peng@gmail.com> writes:

> The underscore character "_" is displayed as a backslash and an
> underscore "\_" in WoMan mode. Is this a bug or a feature?
>
> This is from ~M-x woman docker-attach~:
>
> #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
>   * \\ (two backward slashes)
>   * \_ (underscore)
>   * ^ (caret)
> #+END_EXAMPLE
>
> This is from ~M-x man docker-attach~:
>
> #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
>   · \\ (two backward slashes)
>   · _ (underscore)
>   · ^ (caret)
> #+END_EXAMPLE

(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately got little response at
the time.)

I tried this in Emacs 25.1 (and 28) on Debian/bullseye, and I can't see
anything obviously wrong, but perhaps I'm looking at the wrong thing.

Are you still seeing this issue in more recent Emacs/Debian versions?


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-07-06 17:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-12  8:12 bug#23956: 25.1.50; Underscore display error in WoMan mode Meiyo Peng
2016-07-12 17:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-13  0:45   ` Meiyo Peng
2021-07-06 17:47 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2021-08-04 11:29   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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