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Re: Completion of links to man pages


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Completion of links to man pages
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2023 20:13:22 +0300

> From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
> Cc: manikulin@gmail.com, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2023 16:55:02 +0000
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
> >> Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> >> Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2023 16:15:07 +0000
> >> 
> >> Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> writes:
> >> 
> >> > 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?
> > ...
> > What we here call "MNS-DOS" (which is actually the DJGPP development
> > environment used to compile the MS-DOS build of Emacs) does have the
> > man command:
> >
> >   http://www.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2apps/man13br2.zip
> > ...
> > The Windows port of the above is available from the ezwinports site.
> 
> > ...
> > I don't think woman.el is being developed, or is it?
> 
> Do you mean that woman.el will be obsoleted?

AFAIU, it already is, de-facto.  Unless someone steps forward and
volunteers to develop woman.el so as to add all the many missing
features that Groff has added during the last years, woman.el will
continue to bitrot.



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