bug#54745: Subject: 28.1; woman fails on "file"

[Andreas Röhler]

Am 06.04.22 um 13:14 schrieb Eli Zaretskii:

> > Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2022 11:20:52 +0200
> > From: Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>
> >
> > M-x woman RET file RET
> >
> > errors saying:
> >
> > Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "WoMan can only format man pages
> >   written with the usual ‘-man’ macros") signal(error ("WoMan can only
> >   format man pages written with the usual ‘-man’ macros"))
> >   error("WoMan can only format man pages written with the usual `-man'
> >   macros") woman-decode-region(1 21597) woman-decode-buffer()
> >   woman-process-buffer()
> >   woman-really-find-file("/usr/share/man/man1/file.1.gz" t "*WoMan 1
> >   file*<2>") woman-find-file("/usr/share/man/man1/file.1.gz")
> >
> > However from bash, manpage appears correctly.
> > Also would read nicely from:  "man file > file.txt"
> >       
> woman.el doesn't use the 'man' program.  It is implemented completely
> in Emacs Lisp.  So what 'man' does is not really relevant; what _is_
> relevant is that Someone(TM) should step up and volunteer to keep
> woman.el up-to-date with all the recent advances in roff markup.
> Until that happens, the error you see above is intentional, meant to
> alert you, the user, to the fact that the man page cannot be reliably
> formatted this way.
>

That workaround attached does it here.

woman.el.patch
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