woman help

woman help

[Mike Ballard]

No studs, not that kind of woman.  I have a couple questions about Emacs'
man page util:

1.  How can I make it so that "M-x man" will bring up woman instead?

2.  When I enter a man page, "du" for example, mb asks 'which directory?'.
    Apparently I have a man1/ and man1p/ - I don't know what the
    difference is but would like to not have to keep entering the dir I
    want in mb and (I guess) just have it default to man[1-7] and quit 
    asking me first.

Mike
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Re: woman help

[Matthias]

Mike Ballard <dont_w@nt_spam.org> wrote:

> 1. How can I make it so that "M-x man" will bring up woman instead?

(defalias 'man 'woman)

Is it ok?
-- 
Matthias

Re: woman help

[Kevin Rodgers]

Mike Ballard wrote:
 > 2.  When I enter a man page, "du" for example, mb asks 'which directory?'.
 >     Apparently I have a man1/ and man1p/ - I don't know what the
 >     difference is but would like to not have to keep entering the dir I
 >     want in mb and (I guess) just have it default to man[1-7] and quit
 >     asking me first.

That man1p directory is being searched because of your MANPATH
environment variable or the woman-manpath, woman-man.conf-path, or
woman-path Emacs Lisp variables.  If you examine their values, you can
determine which one is responsible.

But if man1p and man1 are siblings of a common parent directory, you
might not be able to exclude the former from the search path and still
include the latter by frobbing those variables.  So you would have to
resort to something like this:

(defadvice woman-expand-directory-path (after man1p activate)
   "Exclude \"/usr/man/man1p\"."
   (setq ad-return-value
	(delete "/usr/man/man1p" ad-return-value)))

-- 
Kevin Rodgers