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Re: [NT] Problem with `man' function
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: [NT] Problem with `man' function |
Date: |
Thu, 11 May 2006 21:36:01 +0300 |
> From: David Abrahams <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 07:44:22 -0400
>
> Problem(s) diagnosed:
Thanks.
> 2. quoting for awk needs to use double quotes, not single quotes for
> some reason
What port of awk do you use? Is it a Cygwin port or a native Windows
port?
> 3. CMD doesn't cope, no way, no how, with newlines in the command line
> (at least, not in any way I've found)
Yes, it's a known problem.
> Recipe for a fix in my environment, in Man-filter-list:
>
> a. replace "awk" with "gawk"
> b. remove all newlines from the gawk arguments
> c. backslash-escape existing double quotes in the gawk arguments
> d. replace single quotes in the gawk arguments with double quotes
Thanks, I will try to incorporate this into man.el.