GNU bug report logs - #414
following links to numbered man pages in woman

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Message #18 received at 414 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Frédéric Perrin <frederic.perrin <at> resel.fr>
Cc: 414 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#414: following links to numbered man pages in woman
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2021 17:31:43 +0200

Frédéric Perrin <frederic.perrin <at> resel.fr> writes:

>> Starting with a fresh checkout of the emacs source tree, Woman hangs
>> when following some links to non-existent man pages. It happenned when
>> I was looking at the procmailrc(5) page, and wanted to follow the
>> regexp(5) link. At that moment, emacs stopped responding. The
>> regexp(5) page doesn't exist on my system.

This is now finally fixed in Emacs 28.

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