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Finding and Formatting Man Pages
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WoMan provides three user interfaces for finding and formatting man
pages:

   * a topic interface similar to that provided by the standard Emacs
     `man' command;

   * a family of filename interfaces analogous to the standard Emacs
     `view-file' command;

   * an automatic interface that detects the file type from its
     contents.  (This is currently neither well tested, well supported
     nor recommended!)

The topic and filename interfaces support completion in the usual way.

The topic interface is generally the most convenient for regular use,
although it may require some special setup, especially if your machine
does not already have a conventional `man' installation (which WoMan
tries to detect).

The simplest filename interface command `woman-find-file' can always be
used with no setup at all (provided WoMan is installed and loaded or
set up to autoload).

The automatic interface always requires special setup.

Case-Dependence of Filenames
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By default, WoMan ignores case in file pathnames only when it seems
appropriate.  Microsoft Windows users who want complete case
independence should set the special NTEmacs variable
`w32-downcase-file-names' to `t' and use all lower case when setting
WoMan file paths.

Topic

Topic Interface

Filename

Filename Interface

Automatic

Automatic Interface