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bug#29981: 25.3; WoMan can no longer read OpenSSH man pages
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From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
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bug#29981: 25.3; WoMan can no longer read OpenSSH man pages |
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Date: |
Thu, 04 Jan 2018 20:11:59 +0200 |
> From: "xemdetia ." <xemdetia@808inorganic.com>
> Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2018 11:32:20 -0500
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> Run emacs -Q --execute '(woman "ssh_config")'. System is running Debian
> 9 with openssh-server package 7.4p1-10+deb9u2. It's dying in
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/lisp/woman.el#n2281.
It's a known problem, and the error message is self-explanatory, I
think:
> woman-decode-region: WoMan can only format man pages written with the usual
> ‘-man’ macros
Volunteers are welcome to upgrade woman.el so that it can handle
modern man pages with tricky macros.