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'woman' can't format the ssh man page


From: Chris Moore
Subject: 'woman' can't format the ssh man page
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 11:24:39 +0100

I don't know if this has been reported before - it's a bug that I've
become so used to that I almost don't notice myself working around it
any more...

Typing:

  M-x woman RET ssh RET

should display the 'ssh' man page, but instead I see only parts of it,
strangely formatted.  I just noticed myself switching to an xterm to
run "man ssh", where the page displays properly.

In the xterm I see:

    SSH(1)            BSD General Commands Manual           SSH(1)
    
    NAME
         ssh - OpenSSH SSH client (remote login program)
    
    SYNOPSIS
         ssh [-1246AaCfgKkMNnqsTtVvXxY] [-b bind_address]

and so on, whereas in the *WoMan 1 ssh* buffer I see:

    (SSH client) is a program for logging into a remote machine and
    for executing commands on a remote machine.  It is intended to
    replace rlogin and rsh, and provide secure encrypted [...]

that's how the buffer starts - no title, name, synopsis, etc.  Further
down the buffer I see:

    If
    is  specified, it is  executed on  the remote  host instead  of a
    login shell.

the xterm version has the word 'command' in there, between 'if' and
'is', which makes more sense.

This is on debian unstable, but I'm pretty sure I've seen the same on
a variety of other systems too.




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 of 2006-12-16 on chrislap
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