Bug#480955: emacs' Man-reference-regexp vs. perl man pages

[Niko Tyni]

forwarded 480955 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=43700
thanks

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 03:36:42AM +0800, jidanni at jidanni.org wrote:
> I was going to send this To: bug-gnu-emacs at gnu.org:
> !Subject: Man-reference-regexp should recognize perl unnumbered man pages
> !
> !I hit r whilst in man mode, and get
> !  byte-code: There are no references in the current man page
> !
> !Yes there are. So you need to lighten up on the Man-reference-regexp.
> !Or tell the perl guys to get with the program. (I can't because
> !apparently I've sent them one bug too many.)
> !SEE ALSO
> !       Pod::Simple, Pod::Text::Termcap, pod2text(1)

> So I just don't know what to tell the emacs team a good value that
> would match.
> 
> Man-reference-regexp is a variable defined in `man.el'.
> Its value is
> "\\([-a-zA-Z0-9_­+][-a-zA-Z0-9_.:­+]*\\)[ 	]*(\\([0-9][a-zA-Z0-9+]*\\|[LNln]\\))"

If I understand this correctly, [rt.cpan.org #43700] seems
to be the same issue. Marking as forwarded for now.
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org