From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Display man-page with women shows other strings Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 18:43:58 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1366929857 19791 80.91.229.3 (25 Apr 2013 22:44:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 22:44:17 +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 26 00:44:21 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UVUto-0006Om-Im for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Apr 2013 00:44:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57476 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UVUto-0005vo-7p for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Apr 2013 18:44:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:34876) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UVUtd-0005up-Ls for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Apr 2013 18:44:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UVUtc-0004Lw-Pa for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Apr 2013 18:44:09 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:54846) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UVUtc-0004Lp-JT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Apr 2013 18:44:08 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UVUtZ-00065S-0E for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Apr 2013 00:44:05 +0200 Original-Received: from 69-165-134-22.dsl.teksavvy.com ([69.165.134.22]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 26 Apr 2013 00:44:05 +0200 Original-Received: from monnier by 69-165-134-22.dsl.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 26 Apr 2013 00:44:05 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 69-165-134-22.dsl.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Pij9EGqPoNNukIXRhTjG0T70Wys= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:90351 Archived-At: > Woman shows strings like > .fi > .sp > .sp > .PP > for some pages. other work well. I wonder if i am missing some setting here > or if its my environemtn? I use emacs 24.3.1 from cygwin. woman does not implement the complete nroff language used by manpages, so sometimes it leaves such things, when the manpage uses a construct which woman doesn't understand. If you report them via M-x report-emacs-bug, someone might be able to fix it. Stefan