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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
Cc: manikulin@gmail.com, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Completion of links to man pages
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2023 19:37:05 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83sf6p2fgu.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v8blgi5w.fsf@localhost> (message from Ihor Radchenko on Thu, 05 Oct 2023 16:15:07 +0000)

> From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
> Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2023 16:15:07 +0000
> 
> Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > World has changed since woman.el was developed. Are there systems with 
> > man pages available, but no man command nowadays? Android with man pages 
> > copied by its user?
> 
> MS-DOS, for example.

What we here call "MNS-DOS" (which is actually the DJGPP development
environment used to compile the MS-DOS build of Emacs) does have the
man command:

  http://www.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2apps/man13br2.zip

> Or old Windows versions.

The Windows port of the above is available from the ezwinports site.

> > In WoMan I have not found a way to open <man:man(7)> directly without an 
> > additional prompt for the page section.
> 
> > man.el has a lot of options how to select window for a man page. It is 
> > not the case for woman.
> > ... For Org internal link types same/other window is 
> > controlled by prefix argument (however `org-open-at-point' doc string 
> > describes another meaning of prefix argument: if link should be opened 
> > in Emacs or an external application). I am unsure what is proper 
> > behavior of man links opened from Org, should Org try to make behavior 
> > consistent or it should let packages to act as they wish.
> 
> These two sound like feature requests for WoMan. These features might also
> benefit Org, if implemented.

I don't think woman.el is being developed, or is it?


  reply	other threads:[~2023-10-05 16:37 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 [this message]
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
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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