GNU bug report logs - #27833
25.2; Add support for manpath command to woman.el

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org>

Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2017 22:42:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version 25.2

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #20 received at 27833 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org>
Cc: 27833 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#27833: 25.2; Add support for manpath command to woman.el
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 18:17:15 +0300

> From: Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org>
> Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 15:33:52 +0100
> Cc: 27833 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
>  On top of that, I think we semi-deprecated woman.el because AFAIR it
>  cannot support newer roff features which are abundant in recent man
>  pages. So I wonder what kind of use case do you have that on the one
>  hand needs woman.el, and OTOH finds its manpath emulation lacking.
> 
> ​​I explained that: man -k does not support man directories lacking a database.

Yes, but why not extend man.el by using manpath?  Is there a problem
that I don't see?
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