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Changing the Current Man Page
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The man page currently being browsed by WoMan can be changed in several
ways.  The command `woman' can be invoked to format another man page,
or the current WoMan buffer can be buried or killed.  WoMan maintains a
ring of formatted man pages, and it is possible to move forwards and
backwards in this ring by moving to the next or previous man page.  It
is sometimes useful to reformat the current page, for example after the
right margin (the wrap column) or some other formatting parameter has
been changed.

Buffers formatted by Man and WoMan are completely unrelated, even though
some of the commands to manipulate them are superficially the same (and
share code).

`m'
     Run the command `man' to get a Un*x manual page and put it in a
     buffer.  This command is the top-level command in the man package.
     It runs a Un*x command to retrieve and clean a man page in the
     background and places the results in a Man mode (man page
     browsing) buffer.  If a man buffer already exists for this man
     page, it will display immediately.  This works exactly the same if
     WoMan is loaded, except that the formatting time is displayed in
     the mini-buffer.

`w'
     Run the command `woman' exactly as if the extended command or menu
     item had been used.

`q'
     Bury the buffer containing the current man page (`Man-quit'), i.e.
     move it to the bottom of the buffer stack.

`k'
     Kill the buffer containing the current man page (`Man-kill'), i.e.
     delete it completely so that it can be retrieved only by formatting
     the page again.

`M-p'
     Find the previous WoMan buffer (`WoMan-previous-manpage').

`M-n'
     Find the next WoMan buffer (`WoMan-next-manpage').

`R'
     Call WoMan to reformat the last man page formatted by WoMan
     (`woman-reformat-last-file'), e.g. after changing the fill column.