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

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Frédéric Perrin <frederic.perrin <at> resel.fr>

Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 21:20:03 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: 414 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#414: 23.0.60; Womang hangs on some links
Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2008 18:09:56 -0400

> Now, a link to regexp(5) displays the man page of regexp(n) (I didn't
> notice that this page existed on my system...). More generally, WoMan
> seems not to use the section of the man page when following a link. To
> reproduce this behaviour, load man(1), and follow the groff(1) link.
> WoMan then asks whether it should display groff(1) or groff(7). Now,
> this one is only a minor annoyance.

This should be fairly easy to fix, but it's currently the feature freeze
on the trunk.  After the release, we'll see what we can do.
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