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woman can't parse Solaris man files (they are now in SGML)


From: Klaus Zeitler
Subject: woman can't parse Solaris man files (they are now in SGML)
Date: 26 Feb 2004 11:01:34 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50

Since Solaris 2.7 (I think) sources of man pages are written in SGML and
Sun provides a converter (sgml2roff). I've patched woman-process-buffer
to call this converter for SGML sources.
I'd appreciate if any other Solaris user could test this.

I've attached a patch that handles SGML man sources.
Additionally this patch contains 3 more changes (that I've mentioned
recently).
1. regeneration of cache on demand instead of automatically
2. an (autoloaded) function woman-recreate-cache (I prefer to regenerate my
   cache with a cron job cause it takes very long).
3. Instead of offering all the completions in a completion buffer, the first
   man page in MANPATH is shown as default in minibuffer (pressing ? will
   show the completion buffer)

Maybe Francis can make use of some of these changes.

Attachment: woman.patch
Description: Text Data

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