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Re: address@hidden: woman loops forever if man page doesn't end with new
From: |
Chong Yidong |
Subject: |
Re: address@hidden: woman loops forever if man page doesn't end with newline] |
Date: |
Sun, 15 Oct 2006 15:14:36 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.51 (gnu/linux) |
Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> Would someone please DTRT, then ack?
Fixed.
> From: Chris Moore <address@hidden>
> Subject: woman loops forever if man page doesn't end with newline
> To: emacs-pretest-bug <address@hidden>
>
> If a man page doesn't have a terminating newline, then M-x woman RET
> <page> RET will go into an infinite loop.
>
> For example, this 2 line man page:
>
> - ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> .SH OVERVIEW
> Oops
> - ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> will trigger the bug, if the newline after "Oops" is omitted.
>
> When testing this, use fundamental-mode to create the file because
> nroff mode will add the final newline automatically when the file is
> saved.
>
> I discovered the bug when trying to view Debian unstable's 'svn.1' man
> page.
>
> The package is here:
>
> http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/subversion/subversion_1.4.0-4_i386.deb
>
> and the man page is here:
> /usr/share/man/man1/svn.1.gz
>
>
> I'll raise a separate bug against the subversion package in the Debian
> BTS, but woman shouldn't hang in this case anyway.
>
>
>
> In GNU Emacs 22.0.50.168 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.8.20)
> of 2006-10-12 on chrislap
> X server distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.70101000
> configured using `configure '--with-gtk' '--with-xpm' '--with-jpeg'
> '--with-png' '--with-gif''
>
> Important settings:
> value of $LC_ALL: en_GB.UTF-8
> value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
> value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
> value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
> value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
> value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
> value of $LC_TIME: nil
> value of $LANG: en_GB.UTF-8
> locale-coding-system: utf-8
> default-enable-multibyte-characters: t
>
> Major mode: Fundamental
>
> Minor modes in effect:
> show-paren-mode: t
> display-time-mode: t
> iswitchb-mode: t
> dynamic-completion-mode: t
> shell-dirtrack-mode: t
> tooltip-mode: t
> mouse-wheel-mode: t
> file-name-shadow-mode: t
> global-font-lock-mode: t
> font-lock-mode: t
> unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
> utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
> auto-compression-mode: t
> column-number-mode: t
> line-number-mode: t
> transient-mark-mode: t
>
>
>
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