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[Richard Stallman]

Would someone please DTRT, then ack?

It may save time to ask Chris Moore how to make woman operate
on a given file that isn't in the standard man directories.

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If a man page doesn't have a terminating newline, then M-x woman RET
<page> RET will go into an infinite loop.

For example, this 2 line man page:

- ------------------------------------------------------------------------
.SH OVERVIEW
Oops
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------

will trigger the bug, if the newline after "Oops" is omitted.

When testing this, use fundamental-mode to create the file because
nroff mode will add the final newline automatically when the file is
saved.

I discovered the bug when trying to view Debian unstable's 'svn.1' man
page.

The package is here:

http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/subversion/subversion_1.4.0-4_i386.deb

and the man page is here:
  /usr/share/man/man1/svn.1.gz


I'll raise a separate bug against the subversion package in the Debian
BTS, but woman shouldn't hang in this case anyway.



In GNU Emacs 22.0.50.168 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.8.20)
 of 2006-10-12 on chrislap
X server distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.70101000
configured using `configure '--with-gtk' '--with-xpm' '--with-jpeg'
'--with-png' '--with-gif''

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