GNU bug report logs - #29981
25.3; WoMan can no longer read OpenSSH man pages

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "xemdetia ." <xemdetia <at> 808inorganic.com>

Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2018 17:12:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 23160, 33504, 54745

Found in versions 24.4, 25.3, 26.1.90

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Message #8 received at 29981 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: "xemdetia ." <xemdetia <at> 808inorganic.com>
Cc: 29981 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#29981: 25.3; WoMan can no longer read OpenSSH man pages
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2018 20:11:59 +0200

> From: "xemdetia ." <xemdetia <at> 808inorganic.com>
> Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2018 11:32:20 -0500
> 
> Run emacs -Q --execute '(woman "ssh_config")'. System is running Debian
> 9 with openssh-server package 7.4p1-10+deb9u2. It's dying in
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/lisp/woman.el#n2281.

It's a known problem, and the error message is self-explanatory, I
think:

> woman-decode-region: WoMan can only format man pages written with the usual ‘-man’ macros

Volunteers are welcome to upgrade woman.el so that it can handle
modern man pages with tricky macros.
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