From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Fixes to let woman.el deal with MANPATH_MAP elements Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 18:57:13 +0200 Message-ID: References: <85tzwc2qyi.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85r6rebruy.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1174755450 2138 80.91.229.12 (24 Mar 2007 16:57:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 16:57:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 24 17:57:27 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HV9YS-0005HS-TO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 17:57:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HV9aU-0005Ss-Sx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 11:59:30 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HV9aR-0005Sc-3i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 12:59:27 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HV9aO-0005SC-Lk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 12:59:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HV9aO-0005S9-G1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 11:59:24 -0500 Original-Received: from heller.inter.net.il ([213.8.233.23]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HV9YK-0003B2-Oi; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 12:57:17 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-200-243.inter.net.il [80.230.200.243]) by heller.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3a-GA) with ESMTP id CEQ89624 (AUTH halo1); Sat, 24 Mar 2007 18:57:10 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <85r6rebruy.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (message from David Kastrup on Sat, 24 Mar 2007 16:09:41 +0100) X-detected-kernel: FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.4) (2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:68484 Archived-At: > From: David Kastrup > Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 16:09:41 +0100 > > Are there actually other users of "woman"? Yes, there are. > While I tested the fixes myself on GNU/Linux, woman.el does a _lot_ > of Windows/Cygwin centric stuff That's because Windows systems don't come with a `man' command installed. > (however wise or not it may be to put such code into woman.el > instead of providing the general facilities elsewhere). There's no good general solution to mixing Cygwin programs with a native Windows build of Emacs. The author of woman.el wanted the package to be kinder to such mixing that the rest of Emacs. > If we don't have active users on this list, I don't see a good way to > get testing coverage apart from checking it in and having it appear in > the next pretest. I'm not against committing this in time for the next pretest, but the next pretest is still some time away, and you should see a heads-up several days before that. If by that time no one hollers, I think you should go ahead and commit it. Note that in addition to the Cygwin stuff, woman.el should also be tested on Windows even without Cygwin. Could people who don't have man.exe installed on Windows please try the patched version and see that the patched functions still work? Thanks.