Re: problem with display of man pages in xemacs

>>>>> "Pete" == Pete Siemsen <[email protected]> writes:

   Pete> I like to view Unix man pages using the "manual-entry" function in
   Pete> XEmacs.  Works fine, with all the benefits of man mode, except for
   Pete> one highlighted text is displayed surrounded by annoying special
   Pete> characters in the XEmacs buffer.  These special characters cause the
   Pete> text to be highlighted by regular "man" commands executed outside of
   Pete> XEmacs.
Are you using rman to process the man pages?
It may either solve the problem or be causing it.
Look at the var `Manual-use-rosetta-man' and flip the state and see what
happens.  If you are turning it on, make sure you have rman installed.  I
just discovered it while looking into your question, and turned it on... and
man pages display *much* faster.  Thanks!

Check it out here...
http://polyglotman.sourceforge.net/rman.html
Your distro may call it PolyglotMan.

Or not. I'm using 
"XEmacs 21.4 (patch 15) \"Security Through Obscurity\" [Lucid]
(i686-pc-linux, Mule) of Sat Feb 21 2004,
which may not exhibit the problem.

If rman isn't causing the problem, then it is well worth installing.

   Pete> This is on a Red Hat Fedora 1 Linux system with XEmacs 21.5beta17.
   Pete> On a Solaris 8 system with XEmacs 21.5beta9, I don't have the
   Pete> problem - the highlighed text is italicized in the XEmacs buffer.
   Pete> Command-line "man" commands do the same color highlighting on both
   Pete> systems.

   Pete> My current solution is to look at man pages using a command line.
   Pete> What's the right solution?

   Pete> -- Pete

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