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bug#27833: 25.2; Add support for manpath command to woman.el
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#27833: 25.2; Add support for manpath command to woman.el |
Date: |
Wed, 26 Jul 2017 18:17:15 +0300 |
> From: Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
> Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 15:33:52 +0100
> Cc: 27833@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> On top of that, I think we semi-deprecated woman.el because AFAIR it
> cannot support newer roff features which are abundant in recent man
> pages. So I wonder what kind of use case do you have that on the one
> hand needs woman.el, and OTOH finds its manpath emulation lacking.
>
> I explained that: man -k does not support man directories lacking a
> database.
Yes, but why not extend man.el by using manpath? Is there a problem
that I don't see?