Once a man page has been found and formatted, WoMan provides a browsing
interface that is essentially the same as that provided by the standard
Emacs man
command (and much of the code is inherited from the
man
library, which WoMan currently requires). Many WoMan
facilities can be accessed from the WoMan major mode menu as well as via
key bindings, etc.
WoMan does not produce any page breaks or page numbers, and in fact does
not paginate the man page at all, since this is not appropriate for
continuous online browsing. It produces a document header line that is
constructed from the standard man page header and footer. Apart from
that, the appearance of the formatted man page should be almost
identical to what would be produced by man
, with consecutive
blank lines squeezed to a single blank line.