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Re: [PATCH] (woman-always-choose-first-hit): New defcustom.
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH] (woman-always-choose-first-hit): New defcustom. |
Date: |
Sun, 15 Mar 2009 00:19:16 +0200 |
> Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 21:21:47 +0000
> From: address@hidden
>
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > • The problems you mention are a far cry from making WoMan ``unusable''.
>
> “unusable” is probably a exaggeration. I'm trying to express how it is
> unusable to most users who are not emacs enthusiasts.
IMO, it is no less usable than `man', to newbies and veterans alike.
> consider emacs as a tool, and likewise man and woman are tools. People want
> to run man/woman mostly to get the job done, namely, reading unix man page
> in emacs. “man” works. However, woman is a improvement, but isn't default.
`woman' is not meant to be an improvement. From the commentary at the
beginning of woman.el:
;; WoMan implements a subset of the formatting performed by the Emacs
;; `man' (or `manual-entry') command to format a UN*X manual `page'
;; for display, but without calling any external programs.
IOW, it's a clone of `man' that does not require `man' the external
command. That's all there is to it. On some platforms, that's a heck
of an advantage; on others, it isn't.
> The extra option of minor improvement to user adds a slight complexity. But
> adding the fact that woman itself provides some rough edges. So for some
> emacs user who are beginning to be adventurous, when they read about woman
> and try it, its problem is frustrating, another tiny time drain in emacs.
`woman' works, period. So does `man', of course. Each one has its
quirks and bugs (I fixed one in each just the other day), but they are
minor bugs. I use both, on 3 radically different platforms, and I
don't find any of them ``frustrating'', nor do they need my Emacs
expertise to show me a manual page in a reasonably legible way.
> I think most, or all of these can be fixed, without sacrificing ANY of
> emacs's power.
Agreed.
- [PATCH] (woman-always-choose-first-hit): New defcustom., Eric Hanchrow, 2009/03/09
- Re: [PATCH] (woman-always-choose-first-hit): New defcustom., Richard M Stallman, 2009/03/10
- Re: [PATCH] (woman-always-choose-first-hit): New defcustom., Stefan Monnier, 2009/03/10
- Re: [PATCH] (woman-always-choose-first-hit): New defcustom., Richard M Stallman, 2009/03/11
- RE: [PATCH] (woman-always-choose-first-hit): New defcustom., Drew Adams, 2009/03/11
- Re: RE: [PATCH] (woman-always-choose-first-hit): New defcustom., xahlee, 2009/03/11
- Re: [PATCH] (woman-always-choose-first-hit): New defcustom., Eli Zaretskii, 2009/03/12
- Re: Re: [PATCH] (woman-always-choose-first-hit): New defcustom., xahlee, 2009/03/14
- Re: [PATCH] (woman-always-choose-first-hit): New defcustom.,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: [PATCH] (woman-always-choose-first-hit): New defcustom., tomas, 2009/03/15
- Re: [PATCH] (woman-always-choose-first-hit): New defcustom., Richard M Stallman, 2009/03/16