Dirk Eddelbuettel writes: > > Dirk> Is there an easy way to let "M-x man" in emacs access the already > Dirk> prepared pages in /var/catman? > > Richard> It already does, doesn't it? > Richard> > Richard> (Emacs calls man(1) to get the formatted man page, and that should > Richard> DTRT.) > >But why does it about 20 seconds (on a Pentium with 16 MB) before the man page >for bash shows up? Is that for groffing the man page or for finding memory >for this buffer because the pager eats it all at once? > >groff -man -Tlatin1 /usr/man/man1/bash.1 takes about 6 seconds.
There's quite a bit of reformatting that goes on as Emacs mangles the formatted page into a form it can cope with. -- Richard Kettlewell http://www.elmail.co.uk/staff/richard/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] It was definitely murder - but was it art?
