From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim X Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: xdisaster Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 09:43:49 +1000 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <87d529xioa.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> References: <87y7kyx7hu.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1176424572 443 80.91.229.12 (13 Apr 2007 00:36:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 00:36:12 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 13 02:36:08 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Hc9ln-0005Gi-Qw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Apr 2007 02:36:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hc9q0-0001g7-SM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Apr 2007 20:40:28 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!sn-xt-sjc-03!sn-xt-sjc-07!sn-post-sjc-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.95 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:oQDLfIEp8RUqkFzMPWYfAIi25Sg= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 46 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:147026 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:42630 Archived-At: Sean Sieger writes: > Tim X writes: > > in emacs, to read man pages, use either M-x man or M-x woman. Both > have slightly different features. I find woman great for longer and > more in-depth man reading sessions, but M-x man is great when I > just want to check something like command line switches etc. > > Thank you Tim. M-x woman The thing that bugs me about M-x woman is > that it starts another instance of emacs; is there a way to prevent > this? > Woman doesn't start another 'instance' of emacs. It will open up in its own frame when running under X. You can change this behavior by setting the variable woman-use-own-frame to nil. (Note that under emacs terminology, a 'frame' is similar to what is often referred to as a window by other systems). Either run woman (to make sure it has been loaded) and then do M-x customize-group woman and find the appropriate entry (I believe its under the subgroup woman-interface). Alternatively, just a (setq woman-use-own-frame nil) in your .emacs will probably also work (though I'd highly recommend using the customize interface). Tim ,----[ C-h v woman-use-own-frame RET ] | woman-use-own-frame is a variable defined in `woman.el'. | Its value is t | | | Documentation: | *If non-nil then use a dedicated frame for displaying WoMan windows. | Only useful when run on a graphic display such as X or MS-Windows. | | You can customize this variable. `---- -- tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au