Re: WoMan generates different result from man?

[Dan Espen]

Hongxu Chen <leftcopy.chx@gmail.com> writes:

> Jonathan Groll <lists@groll.co.za> writes:
>
>> On Mon, 03 Jun 2013 19:39:07 +0800, Hongxu Chen <leftcopy.chx@gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>>  I am using `WoMan' other than man to read manpages. But I find there
>>>  are some slight differences when reading the content.  Take the
>>>  manpage of `man' as an example:
>>> 
>>>  WoMan parses the result of the section number introduction like this:
>>> 
>>>     1@Executable programs or shell commands   2@System calls
>>> (functions provided by the kernel)   3@Library calls (functions within
>>> program libraries)   4@Special files (usually found in /dev)   5@File
>>> formats and conventions eg /etc/passwd   6@Games   7@Miscellaneous
>>> (including macro packages and conventions), e.g. man(7),
>>>      groff(7)   8@System administration commands (usually only for
>>> root)   9@Kernel routines [Non standard] 
>>> 
>>>  While the result generates by `man' does have `@' but spaces `   ',
>>>  just as follows:
>>>      1   Executable programs or shell commands
>>>       2   System calls (functions provided by the kernel)
>>>       3   Library calls (functions within program libraries)
>>>       4   Special files (usually found in /dev)
>>>       5   File formats and conventions eg /etc/passwd
>>>       6   Games
>>>       7   Miscellaneous (including macro packages  and  conventions),  e.g. 
>>>  man(7),
>>>           groff(7)
>>>       8   System administration commands (usually only for root)
>>>       9   Kernel routines [Non standard]
>>> 
>>>  The margin in WoMan also seems a little odd.
>>> 
>>>  So is this a known issue?
>>
>> Yes. Women are from venus.
> Well, WoMan is really different from man...
> Are there some workarounds to remedy?
>
> BTW, is WoMan popular in Emacs, or Emacsers typically look up info
> through info?

I have no way of telling, but stopped using woman and use M-x man instead.
If the man page doesn't help and it mentions info, I'll try info.

-- 
Dan Espen