Here's a patch to fix this. It adds a newline to the end of the man
page whether or not there's one there already.
Chris.
On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 16:29 +0200, Chris Moore wrote:
> If a man page doesn't have a terminating newline, then M-x woman RET
> <page> RET will go into an infinite loop.
>
> For example, this 2 line man page:
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> .SH OVERVIEW
> Oops
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> will trigger the bug, if the newline after "Oops" is omitted.
>
> When testing this, use fundamental-mode to create the file because
> nroff mode will add the final newline automatically when the file is
> saved.
>
> I discovered the bug when trying to view Debian unstable's 'svn.1' man
> page.
>
> The package is here:
>
> http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/subversion/subversion_1.4.0-4_i386.deb
>
> and the man page is here:
> /usr/share/man/man1/svn.1.gz
>
>
> I'll raise a separate bug against the subversion package in the Debian
> BTS, but woman shouldn't hang in this case anyway.
>
>
>
> In GNU Emacs 22.0.50.168 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.8.20)
> of 2006-10-12 on chrislap
> X server distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.70101000
> configured using `configure '--with-gtk' '--with-xpm' '--with-jpeg'
> '--with-png' '--with-gif''
>
> Important settings:
> value of $LC_ALL: en_GB.UTF-8
> value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
> value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
> value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
> value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
> value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
> value of $LC_TIME: nil
> value of $LANG: en_GB.UTF-8
> locale-coding-system: utf-8
> default-enable-multibyte-characters: t
>
> Major mode: Fundamental
>
> Minor modes in effect:
> show-paren-mode: t
> display-time-mode: t
> iswitchb-mode: t
> dynamic-completion-mode: t
> shell-dirtrack-mode: t
> tooltip-mode: t
> mouse-wheel-mode: t
> file-name-shadow-mode: t
> global-font-lock-mode: t
> font-lock-mode: t
> unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
> utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
> auto-compression-mode: t
> column-number-mode: t
> line-number-mode: t
> transient-mark-mode: t
>
--- old/woman.el 2006-10-24 15:17:50.000000000 +0200
+++ woman.el 2006-10-24 15:16:47.000000000 +0200
@@ -1727,7 +1727,10 @@
(auto-compression-mode 1))
(nth 1
(condition-case ()
- (insert-file-contents filename nil)
+ (progn
+ (insert "\n")
+ (backward-char 1)
+ (insert-file-contents filename nil))
(file-error
;; Run find-file-not-found-hooks until one returns non-nil.
;; (run-hook-with-args-until-success 'find-file-not-found-hooks)
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