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Re: Completion of links to man pages
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: Completion of links to man pages |
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Fri, 06 Oct 2023 17:37:42 -0400 |
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> It seems, I was not the only person who had an impression that `woman'
> is the Emacs way to read man pages. I have no idea concerning its
> origin, perhaps some pages and comments I had seen on the net.
This suggests that running M-x woman should display a message saying to
use M-x man instead.
The message could add this
The name M-x man refers to the old Unix command `man', which is
short for "manual". Its purpose is to read pages of the manual.
Mx- woman was a joke based on that name.
--
Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
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- Re: Completion of links to man pages, Michael Albinus, 2023/10/07
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- Re: Completion of links to man pages, Ihor Radchenko, 2023/10/05
- Re: Completion of links to man pages, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/10/05
- Re: Completion of links to man pages, Ihor Radchenko, 2023/10/05
- Re: Completion of links to man pages, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/10/05
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