From: Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 27833@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#27833: 25.2; Add support for manpath command to woman.el
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 17:29:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOnWdohRwezNYRDxmDHkxmJgEaZvFr_ds9-FLY3dbPjbGe1uiQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83d18n5itg.fsf@gnu.org>
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On 26 Jul 2017 4:17 pm, "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> From: Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
> Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 15:33:52 +0100
> Cc: 27833@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> On top of that, I think we semi-deprecated woman.el because AFAIR it
> cannot support newer roff features which are abundant in recent man
> pages. So I wonder what kind of use case do you have that on the one
> hand needs woman.el, and OTOH finds its manpath emulation lacking.
>
> I explained that: man -k does not support man directories lacking a
database.
Yes, but why not extend man.el by using manpath? Is there a problem
that I don't see?
It would take more work, as man.el does not replicate the path
configuration as woman.el does, but relies on man -k. Furthermore, man-db
upstream is now aware of the problem and intends to fix it.
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-25 22:41 bug#27833: 25.2; Add support for manpath command to woman.el Reuben Thomas
2017-07-25 23:40 ` Mark Oteiza
2017-07-26 8:43 ` Reuben Thomas
2017-07-26 14:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-26 14:33 ` Reuben Thomas
2017-07-26 15:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-26 16:29 ` Reuben Thomas [this message]
2019-09-29 2:03 ` Stefan Kangas
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