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: Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton <at> gmail.com>
To: 9447 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9447: 24.0.50; woman loses single quotes
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2011 13:25:53 +0100

On Fri 09 Sep 2011, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
>> Cc: 9447 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  eric.hanchrow <at> gmail.com
>> Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2011 03:34:00 -0400
>> 
>> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> 
>> > You obviously forget the use case of Emacs on MS-Windows.
>> 
>> If only I could...
>
> And btw, man.el doesn't work on Windows anyway, even if you have an
> external `man' program, due to its quoting that assumes a Posix shell.
> I tried to fix that once, but gave up after a few hours, telling
> myself "they always have woman.el...".

Works perfectly well with Cygwin though :-)

    AndyM
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