From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Completion of links to man pages
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2023 17:37:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1qosVy-0003ZY-Pi@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ufnvit$12ho$1@ciao.gmane.io> (message from Max Nikulin on Fri, 6 Oct 2023 10:40:10 +0700)
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> It seems, I was not the only person who had an impression that `woman'
> is the Emacs way to read man pages. I have no idea concerning its
> origin, perhaps some pages and comments I had seen on the net.
This suggests that running M-x woman should display a message saying to
use M-x man instead.
The message could add this
The name M-x man refers to the old Unix command `man', which is
short for "manual". Its purpose is to read pages of the manual.
Mx- woman was a joke based on that name.
--
Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
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Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-10-06 21:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-10-04 11:40 Completion of links to man pages Max Nikulin
2023-10-05 11:40 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-10-05 12:20 ` Max Nikulin
2023-10-05 12:48 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-10-05 15:59 ` Max Nikulin
2023-10-05 16:15 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-10-05 16:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-05 16:55 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-10-05 17:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-05 17:30 ` Ihor Radchenko
[not found] ` <ufnvit$12ho$1@ciao.gmane.io>
2023-10-06 21:37 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2023-10-07 11:14 ` Michael Albinus
2023-10-06 3:58 ` Max Nikulin
2023-10-05 15:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-05 16:05 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-10-05 16:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-05 16:53 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-10-05 17:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-05 17:36 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-10-06 3:16 ` Max Nikulin
2023-12-09 11:32 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-12-13 15:20 ` [PATCH] ol-man.el: Enable completion Max Nikulin
2023-12-14 15:09 ` Ihor Radchenko
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