From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
To: Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Completion of links to man pages
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2023 16:15:07 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v8blgi5w.fsf@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ufmmgh$m6u$1@ciao.gmane.io>
Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> writes:
> On 05/10/2023 19:48, Ihor Radchenko wrote:
>> Max Nikulin writes:
>>
>>> Frankly speaking, I am unsure if woman should be supported in Org at
>>> all. My early experience with woman.el was not nice. I tried M-x woman
>>> RET ssh RET (openssh).
>>
>> woman is not trying to be complete. See [[info:woman#Introduction]].
>>
>> For Org support, we already support it, and it would be a feature
>> regression if we remove it.
>
> 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. Or old Windows versions. Emacs can work on many
systems and there is no reason to avoid supporting more OSes when we do
not have to.
> I see a little value in a tool that can not handle a wide spread case
> when a better one is available. Features, that were unique for woman,
> have been implemented for man.
Which is why `org-man-command' is set to 'man by default.
> 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.
--
Ihor Radchenko // yantar92,
Org mode contributor,
Learn more about Org mode at <https://orgmode.org/>.
Support Org development at <https://liberapay.com/org-mode>,
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-10-05 16:14 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 [this message]
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
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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