GNU bug report logs - #414
following links to numbered man pages in woman

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Frédéric Perrin <frederic.perrin <at> resel.fr>

Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 21:20:03 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

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Report forwarded to bug-submit-list <at> lists.donarmstrong.com, Emacs Bugs <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>:
bug#414; Package emacs. Full text and rfc822 format available.

Acknowledgement sent to Frédéric Perrin <frederic.perrin <at> resel.fr>:
New bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to Emacs Bugs <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>. Full text and rfc822 format available.

Message #5 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Frédéric Perrin <frederic.perrin <at> resel.fr>
To: emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: 23.0.60; Womang hangs on some links
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 23:10:20 +0200
Hello,

Frédéric Perrin <frederic.perrin <at> resel.fr> writes:
> Starting with a fresh checkout of the emacs source tree, Woman hangs
> when following some links to non-existent man pages. It happenned when
> I was looking at the procmailrc(5) page, and wanted to follow the
> regexp(5) link. At that moment, emacs stopped responding. The
> regexp(5) page doesn't exist on my system.

With a fresh CVS update (of this afternoon), it no longer happens. I
don't see the ChangeLog entry that would have fixed this bug. If I read
`cvs log woman.el` correctly, the last change seems to be :

> revision 1.70
> date: 2008-04-11 02:30:24 +0000;  author: cyd;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1;  commitid: t1JbOdImtMiRsDYs;
> (woman2-TH): Undo last change.  Use string-equal instead of
> string-match.

which is older than the version of CVS in which I saw the bug. Anyway...

Now, a link to regexp(5) displays the man page of regexp(n) (I didn't
notice that this page existed on my system...). More generally, WoMan
seems not to use the section of the man page when following a link. To
reproduce this behaviour, load man(1), and follow the groff(1) link.
WoMan then asks whether it should display groff(1) or groff(7). Now,
this one is only a minor annoyance.

-- 
Fred




Information forwarded to bug-submit-list <at> lists.donarmstrong.com, Emacs Bugs <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>:
bug#414; Package emacs. Full text and rfc822 format available.

Acknowledgement sent to Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to Emacs Bugs <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>. Full text and rfc822 format available.

Message #10 received at 414 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: 414 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: 23.0.60; Womang hangs on some links
Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2008 18:09:56 -0400
> Now, a link to regexp(5) displays the man page of regexp(n) (I didn't
> notice that this page existed on my system...). More generally, WoMan
> seems not to use the section of the man page when following a link. To
> reproduce this behaviour, load man(1), and follow the groff(1) link.
> WoMan then asks whether it should display groff(1) or groff(7). Now,
> this one is only a minor annoyance.

This should be fairly easy to fix, but it's currently the feature freeze
on the trunk.  After the release, we'll see what we can do.




Severity set to `wishlist' from `normal' Request was from Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com> to control <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com. (Sat, 02 Aug 2008 22:15:06 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

Information forwarded to bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org:
bug#414; Package emacs. (Sat, 09 Jan 2016 20:01:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

Message #15 received at 414 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Fran Burstall <fran.burstall <at> gmail.com>
To: 414 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Still present in 25.1.50.1
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 2016 19:58:07 +0000
This link issue is still present in 25.1.50.1.

---Fran Burstall




Information forwarded to bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org:
bug#414; Package emacs. (Mon, 19 Jul 2021 15:32:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

Message #18 received at 414 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Frédéric Perrin <frederic.perrin <at> resel.fr>
Cc: 414 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#414: following links to numbered man pages in woman
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2021 17:31:43 +0200
Frédéric Perrin <frederic.perrin <at> resel.fr> writes:

>> Starting with a fresh checkout of the emacs source tree, Woman hangs
>> when following some links to non-existent man pages. It happenned when
>> I was looking at the procmailrc(5) page, and wanted to follow the
>> regexp(5) link. At that moment, emacs stopped responding. The
>> regexp(5) page doesn't exist on my system.

This is now finally fixed in Emacs 28.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no




bug marked as fixed in version 28.1, send any further explanations to 414 <at> debbugs.gnu.org and Frédéric Perrin <frederic.perrin <at> resel.fr> Request was from Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> to control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Mon, 19 Jul 2021 15:33:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

bug archived. Request was from Debbugs Internal Request <help-debbugs <at> gnu.org> to internal_control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Tue, 17 Aug 2021 11:24:04 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

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