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Re: 'woman' can't format the ssh man page


From: Kim F. Storm
Subject: Re: 'woman' can't format the ssh man page
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 11:59:39 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.92 (gnu/linux)

Chris Moore <address@hidden> writes:

> So now it says:
>
>   "woman-decode-buffer: WoMan can only format
>    manpages written in the an format"
>
> Wouldn't that be clearer if the 'an' was in quotes, what with 'an'
> being a word in the English language and all, and not a format many
> Emacs will have heard of I guess.  I had to read the sentence a few
> times to parse it correctly.

IMO, even better would be '-man' as that is what's passed to nroff
to format a normal man page.


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Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk





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