Function: woman-decode-buffer

woman-decode-buffer is an interactive and byte-compiled function defined in woman.el.gz.

Signature

(woman-decode-buffer)

Documentation

Decode a buffer in UN*X man-page source format.

No external programs are used.

Key Bindings

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/woman.el.gz
;;; The main decoding driver:

(defun woman-decode-buffer ()
  "Decode a buffer in UN*X man-page source format.
No external programs are used."
  (interactive)				; mainly for testing
  (WoMan-log-begin)
  (run-hooks 'woman-pre-format-hook)
  (and font-lock-mode (font-lock-mode -1))
  ;; (fundamental-mode)
  (let ((start-time (current-time))
	time)
    (message "WoMan formatting buffer...")
;  (goto-char (point-min))
;  (cond
;   ((re-search-forward "^\\.[ \t]*TH" nil t) ; wrong format if not found?
;    (beginning-of-line)
;    (delete-region (point-min) (point))) ; potentially dangerous!
;   (t (message "WARNING: .TH request not found -- not man-page format?")))
    (woman-decode-region (point-min) (point-max))
    (setq time (float-time (time-since start-time)))
    (message "WoMan formatting buffer...done in %g seconds" time)
    (WoMan-log-end time))
  (run-hooks 'woman-post-format-hook))