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?
next prev parent 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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