1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/woman.el b/lisp/woman.el
index 02e20652de9..e19df4b7fec 100644
--- a/lisp/woman.el
+++ b/lisp/woman.el
@@ -1649,6 +1649,8 @@ decompress the file if appropriate.  See the documentation for the
 
 (defun woman-make-bufname (bufname)
   "Create an unambiguous buffer name from BUFNAME."
+  ;; See Bug#5038.  Any compression extension has already been removed.
+  ;; Go from eg "host.conf.5" to "5 host.conf".
   (let ((dot (string-match "\\.[^.]*\\'" bufname)))
     (if dot (setq bufname (concat
                            (substring bufname (1+ dot)) " "