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Re: why alias man to woman doesn't work?


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: why alias man to woman doesn't work?
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2012 22:39:42 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.94 (gnu/linux)

> btw, why's women (require 'man)
>  that seems...incenstual.  It's supposed to be independent.

Because woman's main purpose is to provide what /usr/bin/man (and/or
nroff/groff) does, rather than what man.el does.  So some of the
remaining functionality and customizations can be shared between
the two.


        Stefan


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