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Re: Display man-page with women shows other strings


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Display man-page with women shows other strings
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 18:43:58 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux)

> Woman shows strings like

> .fi
> .sp
> .sp
> .PP

> for some pages. other work well. I wonder if i am missing some setting here
> or if its my environemtn? I use emacs 24.3.1 from cygwin.

woman does not implement the complete nroff language used by manpages,
so sometimes it leaves such things, when the manpage uses a construct
which woman doesn't understand.

If you report them via M-x report-emacs-bug, someone might be able to
fix it.


        Stefan




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