Re: WoMan generates different result from man?

[Hongxu Chen]

Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> writes:

> Hongxu Chen <leftcopy.chx@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> BTW, is WoMan popular in Emacs, or Emacsers typically look up
>> info through info?
>
> WoMan also fails to draw tables.
>
> Check out this dump:
>
> http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/man_sv/dumps/woman_man_ascii.png
>
> There you see the man and woman representation of the groff source.
>
> It is absolutely not uncommon to browse the man pages (`M-x man')
> in Emacs. You can navigate them with the familiar shortcuts, you
> can yank quotes into mails or messages, and if you write source
> code, you won't have to leave Emacs (you can have the
> documentation in one window, and the source in another).
>
> The exact same reasoning goes for info.
>
> But there is no reason to put the man pages against info. But are
> useful and you should learn to get comfortable with both.

Just find another difference: WoMan might miss some man entry.
For instance, man would find `malloc_stats' but WoMan fails.
Is it because the search path not set right or the flaw of WoMan?
I swear there is no sexism:-)

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Regards,
Hongxu Chen