Re: man integration with tramp

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
> Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2020 19:58:16 +0200
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> I see two possibilities to achieve this goal.
> 
> - Adapt man.el. Likely, it just needs a prefix argument for `man' and
>   related commands. This would control to call the remote counterparts of
>   `call-process' and `start-process', resulting man pages from a remote
>   host. A proper managemnt of $MANPATH for different hosts is also
>   required.
> 
> - Configure woman.el. Likely, we don't need to touch the code; just
>   instructions are needed how to set `woman-manpath', `woman-path' and
>   friends for remote hosts. Maybe we must enable connection-local
>   variables in woman.el (this would be a code change, but a small one).
> 
> Personally, I prefer the second option, but I haven't digged deeper for
> possible problems.
> 
> Comments?

woman.el doesn't support some of the lately-introduced roff
directives, so it cannot always typeset and render every man page one
finds nowadays on modern platforms.  If you want to use woman.el to do
this job, it will need to be enhanced first, I think.