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| author | Eli Zaretskii | 2000-05-08 16:02:33 +0000 |
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| committer | Eli Zaretskii | 2000-05-08 16:02:33 +0000 |
| commit | 6abca616a3ac6770633fc9b70e9dd0e628bf08be (patch) | |
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| parent | 10c00b5c474357ec1ec30ec1ac5637afde081ec4 (diff) | |
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| 954 | ** New modes and packages | 954 | ** New modes and packages |
| 955 | 955 | ||
| 956 | *** The new package called `woman' allows to browse Unix man pages | ||
| 957 | without invoking external programs. | ||
| 958 | |||
| 959 | The command `M-x woman' formats manual pages entirely in Emacs Lisp | ||
| 960 | and then displays them, like `M-x manual-entry' does. Unlike | ||
| 961 | `manual-entry', `woman' does not invoke any external programs, so it | ||
| 962 | is useful on systems such as MS-DOS/MS-Windows where the `man' and | ||
| 963 | Groff or `troff' are not readily available. | ||
| 964 | |||
| 965 | The command `M-x woman-find-file' asks for the file name of a man | ||
| 966 | page, then formats and displays it like `M-x woman' does. | ||
| 967 | |||
| 956 | *** The new command M-x re-builder offers a convenient interface for | 968 | *** The new command M-x re-builder offers a convenient interface for |
| 957 | authoring regular expressions with immediate visual feedback. | 969 | authoring regular expressions with immediate visual feedback. |
| 958 | 970 | ||