Re: Completion of links to man pages

[Max Nikulin]

On 05/10/2023 19:48, Ihor Radchenko wrote:
> Max Nikulin writes:
>
> > Frankly speaking, I am unsure if woman should be supported in Org at
> > all. My early experience with woman.el was not nice. I tried M-x woman
> > RET ssh RET (openssh).
>
> woman is not trying to be complete. See [[info:woman#Introduction]].
>
> For Org support, we already support it, and it would be a feature
> regression if we remove it.

World has changed since woman.el was developed. Are there systems with 
man pages available, but no man command nowadays? Android with man pages 
copied by its user?

I see a little value in a tool that can not handle a wide spread case 
when a better one is available. Features, that were unique for woman, 
have been implemented for man.

In WoMan I have not found a way to open <man:man(7)> directly without an 
additional prompt for the page section.

man.el has a lot of options how to select window for a man page. It is 
not the case for woman. For Org internal link types same/other window is 
controlled by prefix argument (however `org-open-at-point' doc string 
describes another meaning of prefix argument: if link should be opened 
in Emacs or an external application). I am unsure what is proper 
behavior of man links opened from Org, should Org try to make behavior 
consistent or it should let packages to act as they wish.