GNU bug report logs - #9447
24.0.50; woman loses single quotes

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Eric Hanchrow <eric.hanchrow <at> gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 01:12:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.0.50

Fixed in version 24.1

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: 9447 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Eric Hanchrow <eric.hanchrow <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#9447: 24.0.50; woman loses single quotes
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2011 02:48:47 -0400

close 9447 24.1
stop

I think I fixed this. AFAICS, woman-if-body, which was unchanged since
woman.el was introduced, contained code that made no sense. A minimal
example of a file showing the problem is anything with more than one .ie
block, eg:

    .ie n .ds Ab x
    .el .ds Ab y
    .ie \n(.g .ds Aq \(aq
    .el       .ds Aq '
    .TH Moose
    .nh
    .SH "NAME"
    for example
    .PP
    \&  has \*(Aqssn\*(Aq

I sort of wonder what the point of woman.el is. It has a punny name, but
is basically a partial, buggy, reimplementation of a very standard
external program that is surely installed on any system where man pages
are used. Eg I note that it doesn't render man.1 correctly on my current
system, with the current trunk doing a worse job than Emacs 23.3 does.
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