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Re: [NT] Problem with `man' function
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David Abrahams |
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Re: [NT] Problem with `man' function |
Date: |
Thu, 11 May 2006 00:26:57 -0400 |
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Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>> From: Dave Abrahams <address@hidden>
>> Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 20:54:16 +0000 (UTC)
>>
>> > sed: -e expression #1, char 1: unknown command: `''
>> > awk: '
>> > awk: ^ invalid char ''' in expression
>> >
>> > process exited abnormally with code 1
>> >
>> > The messages from Sed and Awk say quite unequivocally that the problem
>> > is with the quoting style: Windows shells and programs don't support
>> > the '..' quoting that man.el uses.
>>
>> Using the other quoting made no difference whatsoever for me.
>>
>> > I tried to replace '..' quoting with ".." quoting, but then bumped
>> > into other bugs, this time in Sed. It sounds like the GnuWin32 port
>> > of Sed is hopelessly broken. Or it could be a bug with cmdproxy.exe,
>> > I really don't have time to dig into that.
>> >
>> > Perhaps with the Cygwin ports you have man.el will work if you replace
>> > '..' quoting with ".." quoting in the Sed and Awk scripts used by
>> > man.el. Could you perhaps try that?
>>
>> Tried it, to no avail.
>
> Please show the modified portion in man.el with this change. Perhaps
> you didn't get all the escaping right.
I used the emacs customization interface, and so avoided all that. I
just deleted the awk part.
>> > Failing that, I suggest to use woman.el.
>>
>> Aww, this is discouraging.
>
> Why? There's nothing man.el can do that woman.el cannot.
I know that song from somewhere... :)
>> Can't you suggest a place to breakpoint so we can look at what's
>> coming out of awk?
>
>>From the above error message it's clear that nothing comes out of Awk,
> since it barfs because of a syntax error.
Oh.
> But if you do manage to run Awk without an error message, just add a
> `message' line that displays its output after it returns.
Okay.
--
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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