Re: woman can't parse Solaris man files (they are now in SGML)

[Dr Francis J. Wright]

From: "Klaus Zeitler" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Cc: "Dr Francis J. Wright" <address@hidden>
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 10:01 AM
Subject: woman can't parse Solaris man files (they are now in SGML)


> Since Solaris 2.7 (I think) sources of man pages are written in SGML and
> Sun provides a converter (sgml2roff). I've patched woman-process-buffer
> to call this converter for SGML sources.
> I'd appreciate if any other Solaris user could test this.
>
> I've attached a patch that handles SGML man sources.
> Additionally this patch contains 3 more changes (that I've mentioned
> recently).
> 1. regeneration of cache on demand instead of automatically
> 2. an (autoloaded) function woman-recreate-cache (I prefer to regenerate
my
>    cache with a cron job cause it takes very long).
> 3. Instead of offering all the completions in a completion buffer, the
first
>    man page in MANPATH is shown as default in minibuffer (pressing ? will
>    show the completion buffer)
>
> Maybe Francis can make use of some of these changes.


Thanks for the patches; I will certainly consider them.  However, my initial
reaction, especially about pre-processing SGML, is that it's not sensible to
try to use WoMan in situations such as this, where the man command within
Emacs is more appropriate.

Francis