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From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
Date: 24 Sep 1997 23:58:39 +0200
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<mac@silicon-sorcery.com> writes:

> make it possible to nroff and display a man page source file,
> perhaps even from dired.

Yes, that would be cool.  One of my more useful shell functions is:

function unman () {
	nroff -Tlp -man $* | ${PAGER:-more}
}

Why shouldn't XEmacs be able to do the same?  Once you create the
function, it should be trivial to hook it to dired.

> Sometimes MANPATH is not set up right, or you haven't yet installed
> the man page. (Perhaps you are considering installing a package you
> just downloaded, and what to read the man page, which is in the
> build directory.)

Exactly.

-- 
Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
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