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WoMan fails ungracefully on putty manpage

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Message #5 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Sven Joachim <svenjoac <at> gmx.de>
To: emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
Subject: WoMan fails ungracefully on putty manpage
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 15:24:57 +0200

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]

WoMan fails on the attached putty manpage, here is the backtrace:

,----
| Debugger entered--Lisp error: (invalid-regexp "Unmatched ( or \\(")
|   string-match(" -- 2004\\(hy03\\(hy24" "")
|   woman2-TH(#<marker (moves after insertion) at 67 in *WoMan 1 putty*>)
|   woman2-roff-buffer()
|   woman-decode-region(1 7571)
|   woman-decode-buffer()
|   woman-process-buffer()
|   woman-really-find-file("/usr/share/man/man1/putty.1.gz" t "*WoMan 1 putty*")
|   woman-find-file("/usr/share/man/man1/putty.1.gz")
|   woman(nil nil)
|   call-interactively(woman)
`----

In GNU Emacs 22.2.50.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.9)
 of 2008-03-26 on debian, modified by Debian
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10300000
configured using `configure  '--build' 'i486-linux-gnu' '--host' 'i486-linux-gnu' '--prefix=/usr' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib' '--localstatedir=/var' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-pop=yes' '--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs-snapshot:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/22.2.50/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/22.2.50/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/22.2.50/leim' '--with-x=yes' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' 'build_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-DDEBIAN -DSITELOAD_PURESIZE_EXTRA=5000 -g -O2''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: C
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: de_DE.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Fundamental

Minor modes in effect:
  display-time-mode: t
  auto-image-file-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  temp-buffer-resize-mode: t
  column-number-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

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Message #10 received at 100-close <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: 100-close <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: WoMan fails ungracefully on putty manpage
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 22:21:56 -0400

Sven Joachim <svenjoac <at> gmx.de> wrote:

> WoMan fails on the attached putty manpage

I've checked a fix into CVS.  Thanks.

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