> From: Gavin Smith <[email protected]> > Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2026 17:20:35 +0000 > Cc: "G. Branden Robinson" <[email protected]>, > [email protected] > > On Mon, Jan 12, 2026 at 05:57:07PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2026 09:03:27 -0600 > > > From: "G. Branden Robinson" <[email protected]> > > > Cc: [email protected] > > > > > > > > I assume that bug has since been fixed. Can you tell me in which > > > > > release it was? There's a non-zero chance the question will come up > > > > > on the groff mailing list, and I'd like to be prepared with an > > > > > answer. > > > > > > > > If you can tell me how to test this and which man pages use this (or > > > > from where I can download them), I could then tell you whether it was > > > > indeed fixed and in what version of Emacs. (None of the systems to > > > > which I have access have Groff 1.23 installed, so I cannot produce > > > > these man pages myself, sorry.) > > > > > > Without groff 1.23.0, you can't really. > > > > Would it be possible for you to send me a formatted man page, output > > from Groff 1.23, that I could use for testing this? > > I've attached the file produced on my system by > > $ MAN_KEEP_FORMATTING=1 man groff >groff.out > > $ groff --version > GNU groff version 1.23.0 > Copyright (C) 2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > GNU groff comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. > You may redistribute copies of groff and its subprograms > under the terms of the GNU General Public License. > For more information about these matters, see the file > named COPYING. > > called subprograms: > > GNU troff (groff) version 1.23.0 > GNU grops (groff) version 1.23.0 > $ man --version > man 2.12.0
Thanks. Trying "M-x man" in Emacs with this page reveals that the new escape sequences are not filtered or replaced with links, and are presented to the user verbatim. So the Emacs 'man' command also needs to be adapted to this change.
