GNU bug report logs - #12099
Remove out of date example code in woman.el

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From: Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org>
To: bug-emacs <bug-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Remove out of date example code in woman.el
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 12:55:32 +0100

woman.el contains the following bit of documentation:

;; The following is based on suggestions by Guy Gascoigne-Piggford and
;; Juanma Barranquero.  If you really want to square the man-woman
;; circle then you might care to define the following bash function in
;; .bashrc:

;;   man() { gnudoit -q '(raise-frame (selected-frame)) (woman' \"$1\" ')' ; }

;; If you use Microsoft COMMAND.COM then you can create a file called
;; man.bat somewhere in your path containing the two lines:

;;   @echo off
;;   gnudoit -q (raise-frame (selected-frame)) (woman \"%1\")

;; and then (e.g. from a command prompt or the Run... option in the
;; Start menu) just execute

;;   man man_page_name

This is cute, but gnudoit no longer exists, and this code is far from
complete (see the recent discussion on making Emacs a replacement for
standalone info on gnu-prog-discuss). I suggest simply removing the
above from woman.el.

-- 
http://rrt.sc3d.org

Message #10 received at 12099-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Bastien <bzg <at> gnu.org>
To: Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org>
Cc: 12099-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#12099: Remove out of date example code in woman.el
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 15:32:37 +0200

Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org> writes:

> This is cute, but gnudoit no longer exists, and this code is far from
> complete (see the recent discussion on making Emacs a replacement for
> standalone info on gnu-prog-discuss). I suggest simply removing the
> above from woman.el.

Done.

-- 
 Bastien

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