Mercurial > emacs
changeset 28834:636c8cafb7d4
Mention `woman'.
| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> |
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| date | Mon, 08 May 2000 16:02:33 +0000 |
| parents | 0fabb822e92f |
| children | f451114521a7 |
| files | etc/NEWS |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/etc/NEWS Mon May 08 14:50:57 2000 +0000 +++ b/etc/NEWS Mon May 08 16:02:33 2000 +0000 @@ -953,6 +953,18 @@ ** New modes and packages +*** The new package called `woman' allows to browse Unix man pages +without invoking external programs. + +The command `M-x woman' formats manual pages entirely in Emacs Lisp +and then displays them, like `M-x manual-entry' does. Unlike +`manual-entry', `woman' does not invoke any external programs, so it +is useful on systems such as MS-DOS/MS-Windows where the `man' and +Groff or `troff' are not readily available. + +The command `M-x woman-find-file' asks for the file name of a man +page, then formats and displays it like `M-x woman' does. + *** The new command M-x re-builder offers a convenient interface for authoring regular expressions with immediate visual feedback.