From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Reuben Thomas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#27833: 25.2; Add support for manpath command to woman.el Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 17:29:19 +0100 Message-ID: References: <871sp4xhq8.fsf@sc3d.org> <83shhj5l6r.fsf@gnu.org> <83d18n5itg.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="001a1141bce2373efd05553af323" X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1501086621 22738 195.159.176.226 (26 Jul 2017 16:30:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 16:30:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 27833@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 26 18:30:14 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1daPCN-0005Qv-35 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Wed, 26 Jul 2017 09:29:20 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.202.183.87 with HTTP; Wed, 26 Jul 2017 09:29:19 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.202.183.87 with HTTP; Wed, 26 Jul 2017 09:29:19 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <83d18n5itg.fsf@gnu.org> X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:135026 Archived-At: --001a1141bce2373efd05553af323 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 26 Jul 2017 4:17 pm, "Eli Zaretskii" wrote: > From: Reuben Thomas > 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. > > =E2=80=8B=E2=80=8BI explained that: man -k does not support man directori= es 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. --001a1141bce2373efd05553af323 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
On 2= 6 Jul 2017 4:17 pm, "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> From: Re= uben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
> Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 15:33:52 +0100
> Cc: 27833@debbugs.gnu.org=
>
>=C2=A0 On top of that, I think we semi-deprecated woman.el because AFAI= R it
>=C2=A0 cannot support newer roff features which are abundant in recent = man
>=C2=A0 pages. So I wonder what kind of use case do you have that on the= one
>=C2=A0 hand needs woman.el, and OTOH finds its manpath emulation lackin= g.
>
> =E2=80=8B=E2=80=8BI explained that: man -k does not support man direct= ories lacking a database.

Yes, but why not extend man.el by using manpath?=C2=A0 Is there a pro= blem
that I don't see?

It wou= ld take more work, as man.el does not replicate the path configuration as w= oman.el does, but relies on man -k. Furthermore, man-db upstream is now awa= re of the problem and intends to fix it.
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