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Re: xdisaster
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Tim X |
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Re: xdisaster |
Date: |
Fri, 13 Apr 2007 09:43:49 +1000 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.95 (gnu/linux) |
Sean Sieger <sean.sieger@gmail.com> writes:
> Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null> writes:
>
> in emacs, to read man pages, use either M-x man or M-x woman. Both
> have slightly different features. I find woman great for longer and
> more in-depth man reading sessions, but M-x man is great when I
> just want to check something like command line switches etc.
>
> Thank you Tim. M-x woman The thing that bugs me about M-x woman is
> that it starts another instance of emacs; is there a way to prevent
> this?
>
Woman doesn't start another 'instance' of emacs. It will open up in its own
frame when running under X. You can change this behavior by setting the
variable woman-use-own-frame to nil. (Note that under emacs terminology, a
'frame' is similar to what is often referred to as a window by other systems).
Either run woman (to make sure it has been loaded) and then do
M-x customize-group <RET> woman <RET> and find the appropriate entry (I believe
its under the subgroup woman-interface). Alternatively, just a
(setq woman-use-own-frame nil)
in your .emacs will probably also work (though I'd highly recommend using the
customize
interface).
Tim
,----[ C-h v woman-use-own-frame RET ]
| woman-use-own-frame is a variable defined in `woman.el'.
| Its value is t
|
|
| Documentation:
| *If non-nil then use a dedicated frame for displaying WoMan windows.
| Only useful when run on a graphic display such as X or MS-Windows.
|
| You can customize this variable.
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Re: xdisaster, Matthew Flaschen, 2007/04/12