n.el and woman.el from Emacs.
>
> (defun org-man-complete (&optional _arg)
> "Helper for completion of links to man pages."
>(concat
> "man:"
> (let ((completion-ignore-case t)) ; See `man' comments.
> (funcall
>
Eli Zaretskii writes:
Hi,
>> > I don't think woman.el is being developed, or is it?
>>
>> Do you mean that woman.el will be obsoleted?
>
> AFAIU, it already is, de-facto. Unless someone steps forward and
> volunteers to develop woman.el so as to add all the many missing
> features that Groff ha
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> It seems, I was not the only person who had an impression that `woman'
> is th
On 05/10/2023 23:15, Ihor Radchenko wrote:
Max Nikulin writes:
World has changed since woman.el was developed. Are there systems with
man pages available, but no man command nowadays? Android with man pages
copied by its user?
MS-DOS, for example. Or old Windows versions. Emacs can work on man
On 06/10/2023 00:11, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
From where I stand, we have already a stable API tested by years of
use. What is maybe missing is some documentation to allow its easier
use, that's all.
In some cases it is no API but just an interactive command. Sometimes it
can be used from other
Eli Zaretskii writes:
>> Yes, but one cannot replicate the same completion dialogue
>> programmatically in future-compatible way.
>
> What do you mean by that? "M-x man" does this:
>
> (interactive
>(list (let* ((default-entry (Man-default-man-entry))
> ;; ignore case because
Eli Zaretskii writes:
>> Do you mean that woman.el will be obsoleted?
>
> AFAIU, it already is, de-facto. Unless someone steps forward and
> volunteers to develop woman.el so as to add all the many missing
> features that Groff has added during the last years, woman.el will
> continue to bitrot.
> From: Ihor Radchenko
> Cc: maniku...@gmail.com, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, emacs-de...@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2023 16:53:57 +
>
> Eli Zaretskii writes:
>
> >> > How is it different from the "M-x man" completion we already have?
> >>
> >> M-x man will display the man page, while we just
Eli Zaretskii writes:
>> > How is it different from the "M-x man" completion we already have?
>>
>> M-x man will display the man page, while we just need `completing-read'
>> from the same source M-x man or M-x woman use.
>
> Sorry, I don't understand: "M-x man" does provide completion.
Yes, bu
> From: Ihor Radchenko
> Cc: maniku...@gmail.com, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, emacs-de...@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2023 16:05:02 +
>
> Eli Zaretskii writes:
>
> >> To emacs-devel: Would it be of interest to expose man/woman completion
> >> API?
> >
> > How is it different from the "M-x man" c
Max Nikulin writes:
> On 05/10/2023 19:48, Ihor Radchenko wrote:
>> Max Nikulin writes:
>>
>>> Frankly speaking, I am unsure if woman should be supported in Org at
>>> all. My early experience with woman.el was not nice. I tried M-x woman
>>> RET ssh RET (openssh).
>>
>> woman is not trying to
Eli Zaretskii writes:
>> To emacs-devel: Would it be of interest to expose man/woman completion
>> API?
>
> How is it different from the "M-x man" completion we already have?
M-x man will display the man page, while we just need `completing-read'
from the same source M-x man or M-x woman use.
T
On 05/10/2023 19:48, Ihor Radchenko wrote:
Max Nikulin writes:
Frankly speaking, I am unsure if woman should be supported in Org at
all. My early experience with woman.el was not nice. I tried M-x woman
RET ssh RET (openssh).
woman is not trying to be complete. See [[info:woman#Introduction]]
> From: Ihor Radchenko
> Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, emacs-de...@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2023 11:40:44 +
>
> To emacs-devel: Would it be of interest to expose man/woman completion
> API?
How is it different from the "M-x man" completion we already have?
Max Nikulin writes:
>> To emacs-devel: Would it be of interest to expose man/woman completion
>> API?
>
> Since Org mode supports a couple of previous Emacs versions, I would
> avoid cross-posting. I just sent a draft to evaluate if code can be
> added to Org.
Previous Emacs versions are not a
On 05/10/2023 18:40, Ihor Radchenko wrote:
[ CCing emacs-devel ]
To emacs-devel: Would it be of interest to expose man/woman completion
API?
Since Org mode supports a couple of previous Emacs versions, I would
avoid cross-posting. I just sent a draft to evaluate if code can be
added to Org.
igh level functions in man.el and woman.el from Emacs.
Without docstrings, we cannot rely even on single-dash functions.
To emacs-devel: Would it be of interest to expose man/woman completion
API?
> (defun org-man-complete (&optional _arg)
> "Helper for completion of links t
un org-man-complete (&optional _arg)
"Helper for completion of links to man pages."
(concat
"man:"
(let ((completion-ignore-case t)) ; See `man' comments.
(funcall
(if (eq org-man-command 'woman)
#'org-man--complete-woman
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