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woman loops forever if man page doesn't end with newline
From: |
Chris Moore |
Subject: |
woman loops forever if man page doesn't end with newline |
Date: |
Fri, 13 Oct 2006 16:29:41 +0200 |
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
- woman loops forever if man page doesn't end with newline,
Chris Moore <=