Quoting "A.V.Kuznetsov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> Hi Thorsten,
>
> manViewer and neman provide similar (practically identical) interface for
> man page selecting and differ mainly by man output coloring.
> manViewer via rangesets backlights strictly that the man developer marked.
> neman via highlighting tries to mark object often used in manuals
> like command options, paths, urls, strings and so on. There is no
> strict syntax for man page content so such a highlighting is very imperfect
> I prefer highlighting to backlighting while somebody prefer a counter.
> In this context, nMan and neman fill up each other, there is no need to
> merge them.
> Let hundred flowers be in blossom, as Mao said.
>
> Using manViwer, one can add highlighting patterns from Niki
> http://nedit.hackvalue.nl/niki/index.php/ManOutputHighlighting
> This set also provides new "Manual" language mode so user can
> turn on it and add highlighting to backlighting provided by the
> manViewer.

Well, I use both syntax highlighting (matching fewer patterns than yours)
*with* the rangeset bold/underline backlighting. Works a treat. I also
consult the syntax highlighting to see if a position is on a man-page link, so
that I can jump to it. SH has done the work of parsing everything, so why
reanalyse?

Tony
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