* bug#22340: 25.1.50; WoMan fails on groff.1 manpage
@ 2016-01-09 19:01 Fran Burstall
2019-08-01 16:26 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Fran Burstall @ 2016-01-09 19:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 22340
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Starting from 'emacs -Q':
1. M-x woman
2. Select groff, then groff.1
What I expected: a buffer containing a nicely formatted man page for
groff.
What I got: a fundamental-mode buffer containing a garbled version of
the nroff src of the man page.
Commentary:
1. the page src has a definition (.de ...) of a font \f[CR]
which does get parsed correctly. Then WoMan complains that CR is an
unknown font and eventually seems to give up on formatting.
2. I get this behaviour with some other man pages but chose this one as
a typical example.
Thanks!
---Fran Burstall
In GNU Emacs 25.1.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.14.5)
of 2016-01-09 built on darboux
Repository revision: 384cf23c6ed05e1f151032958a2cc2bb8100344b
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Recent messages:
next-line: End of buffer
Building list of manual directory expansions...
Building completion list of all manual topics...
Making completion list...
uncompressing groff.1.gz...done
WoMan formatting buffer...
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* bug#22340: 25.1.50; WoMan fails on groff.1 manpage
2016-01-09 19:01 bug#22340: 25.1.50; WoMan fails on groff.1 manpage Fran Burstall
@ 2019-08-01 16:26 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-08-01 16:33 ` Andreas Schwab
0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Lars Ingebrigtsen @ 2019-08-01 16:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fran Burstall; +Cc: 22340
Fran Burstall <feb@maths.bath.ac.uk> writes:
> Starting from 'emacs -Q':
>
> 1. M-x woman
> 2. Select groff, then groff.1
>
> What I expected: a buffer containing a nicely formatted man page for
> groff.
>
> What I got: a fundamental-mode buffer containing a garbled version of
> the nroff src of the man page.
(I'm going through old bug reports that have unfortunately not gotten
any responses.)
I'm unable to reproduce this bug in Emacs 27, but I'm not sure I
understand the instructions. You say "Select groff, then groff.1".
I tried
M-x woman RET groff RET
and got a properly formatted groff man page.
I then tried
M-x woman RET groff.1 RET
and got "no match", because groff.1 isn't a valid choice here.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no
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* bug#22340: 25.1.50; WoMan fails on groff.1 manpage
2019-08-01 16:26 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
@ 2019-08-01 16:33 ` Andreas Schwab
2019-08-01 17:03 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Andreas Schwab @ 2019-08-01 16:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen; +Cc: Fran Burstall, 22340
On Aug 01 2019, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:
> I tried
>
> M-x woman RET groff RET
>
> and got a properly formatted groff man page.
This means you don't have groff(7), and groff(1) was selected
automatically.
Andreas.
--
Andreas Schwab, SUSE Labs, schwab@suse.de
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* bug#22340: 25.1.50; WoMan fails on groff.1 manpage
2019-08-01 16:33 ` Andreas Schwab
@ 2019-08-01 17:03 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-08-01 17:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Lars Ingebrigtsen @ 2019-08-01 17:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Andreas Schwab; +Cc: Fran Burstall, 22340
Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> writes:
>> I tried
>>
>> M-x woman RET groff RET
>>
>> and got a properly formatted groff man page.
>
> This means you don't have groff(7), and groff(1) was selected
> automatically.
Indeed. If I have groff installed, then woman prompts me for whether I
want to load groff.7.gz or groff.1.gz. If I choose either of these,
then the respective man pages are rendered as they should, as far as I
can tell.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no
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* bug#22340: 25.1.50; WoMan fails on groff.1 manpage
2019-08-01 17:03 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
@ 2019-08-01 17:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-02 11:23 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2019-08-01 17:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen; +Cc: schwab, feb, 22340
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2019 19:03:39 +0200
> Cc: Fran Burstall <feb@maths.bath.ac.uk>, 22340@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> >> M-x woman RET groff RET
> >>
> >> and got a properly formatted groff man page.
> >
> > This means you don't have groff(7), and groff(1) was selected
> > automatically.
>
> Indeed. If I have groff installed, then woman prompts me for whether I
> want to load groff.7.gz or groff.1.gz. If I choose either of these,
> then the respective man pages are rendered as they should, as far as I
> can tell.
Yes, likewise here.
So I think this bug was fixed (if it ever existed, because I cannot
reproduce it with Emacs 25.2 either).
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* bug#22340: 25.1.50; WoMan fails on groff.1 manpage
2019-08-01 17:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
@ 2019-08-02 11:23 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Lars Ingebrigtsen @ 2019-08-02 11:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Eli Zaretskii; +Cc: schwab, feb, 22340
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> So I think this bug was fixed (if it ever existed, because I cannot
> reproduce it with Emacs 25.2 either).
OK; closing.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no
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