* bug#5568: Man-follow-manual-reference vs. perl man pages
@ 2010-02-12 6:56 jidanni
2010-02-12 19:19 ` Juri Linkov
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From: jidanni @ 2010-02-12 6:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 5568
Many man pages have SEE ALSOs like
SEE ALSO
XML::Parser::Lite.
perl v5.10.0 2009-08-23 XML::Parser::Lite::Tree(3pm)
However Man-follow-manual-reference can't figure out that kind of SEE
ALSO item.
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* bug#5568: Man-follow-manual-reference vs. perl man pages
2010-02-12 6:56 bug#5568: Man-follow-manual-reference vs. perl man pages jidanni
@ 2010-02-12 19:19 ` Juri Linkov
2010-02-13 20:19 ` jidanni
2010-02-14 1:08 ` jidanni
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From: Juri Linkov @ 2010-02-12 19:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: jidanni; +Cc: 5568
> Many man pages have SEE ALSOs like
>
> SEE ALSO
> XML::Parser::Lite.
> perl v5.10.0 2009-08-23 XML::Parser::Lite::Tree(3pm)
>
> However Man-follow-manual-reference can't figure out that kind of
> SEE ALSO item.
The references in this SEE ALSO section are in a non-standard format.
A reference should be a word followed by the section name in parentheses.
So these man pages should write references in the format
"XML::Parser::Lite(3pm)".
Of course, you can get what you want with the following patch:
=== modified file 'lisp/man.el'
--- lisp/man.el 2010-02-11 20:57:10 +0000
+++ lisp/man.el 2010-02-12 19:18:50 +0000
@@ -1135,7 +1135,7 @@ (defun Man-highlight-references (&option
(Man-highlight-references0 nil Man-apropos-regexp 1
'Man-default-man-entry
(or xref-man-type 'Man-xref-man-page)))
- (Man-highlight-references0 Man-see-also-regexp Man-reference-regexp 1
+ (Man-highlight-references0 Man-see-also-regexp Man-hyphenated-reference-regexp 1
'Man-default-man-entry
(or xref-man-type 'Man-xref-man-page))
(Man-highlight-references0 Man-synopsis-regexp Man-header-regexp 0 2
But it will also highlight every word in those SEE ALSO sections
that have lengthy text in several paragraphs. Look for example
`M-x man XML::Twig RET' - there are 60 lines in the SEE ALSO section
where all words will be highlighted as a reference!
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
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* bug#5568: Man-follow-manual-reference vs. perl man pages
2010-02-12 6:56 bug#5568: Man-follow-manual-reference vs. perl man pages jidanni
2010-02-12 19:19 ` Juri Linkov
@ 2010-02-13 20:19 ` jidanni
2010-02-14 0:30 ` Juri Linkov
2010-02-14 1:08 ` jidanni
2 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: jidanni @ 2010-02-13 20:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: juri; +Cc: 5568
JL> Of course, you can get what you want with the following patch
Well I sure hope you commit it.
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* bug#5568: Man-follow-manual-reference vs. perl man pages
2010-02-12 6:56 bug#5568: Man-follow-manual-reference vs. perl man pages jidanni
2010-02-12 19:19 ` Juri Linkov
2010-02-13 20:19 ` jidanni
@ 2010-02-14 1:08 ` jidanni
2 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: jidanni @ 2010-02-14 1:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: juri; +Cc: 5568
JL> BTW, I think we should handle HTTP links because they have a definite regexp
JL> that we can match.
Hmm, maybe anything with :: in them too. However I suppose those perl guys
can't be bothered to put the
$ man encode|sed 's/ .*//;q'
Encode(3perl)
or some other hint there in the SEE ALSOs. I would remind them but I'm
banned for life from mailing *@perl.org because of my crabby personality
or something.
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