Hi, i'm trying to use WoMan provided within emacs. Whenever i try to open anything, it raises an error. (Does it work on your machines?) it seems that this code within woman-decode-buffer() in women.el raised the error: (line #2170) (setq time (float-time (time-since start-time))) (time-since) returns a float-value, but float-time wants only NIL or a list. So I suggest changing the line to (setq time (time-since start-time)) will fix this. (Works ok on my machine.) 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