From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2023 16:29:07 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Recommend `M-x man` in woman.el docs
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Recommend `M-x man` in woman.el docs

* lisp/woman.el (Commentary, woman): Recommend using 'M-x man' where
available.  The added sentence is copied from the emacs manual.
Ref: https://lists.gnu.org/r/emacs-devel/2023-10/msg00090.html
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diff --git a/lisp/woman.el b/lisp/woman.el
index 92cd425d32f..2a71b8c1119 100644
--- a/lisp/woman.el
+++ b/lisp/woman.el
@@ -34,6 +34,10 @@
 ;; the emulation is modified to include the reformatting done by the
 ;; Emacs `man' command.  No hyphenation is performed.
 
+;; Note that `M-x woman' doesn’t yet support the latest features of
+;; modern man pages, so we recommend using `M-x man' if that is
+;; available on your system.
+
 ;; Advantages
 
 ;;   Much more direct, does not require any external programs.
@@ -1149,7 +1153,11 @@ speed.  With a prefix argument, force the caches to be
 updated (e.g. to re-interpret the current directory).
 
 Used non-interactively, arguments are optional: if given then TOPIC
-should be a topic string and non-nil RE-CACHE forces re-caching."
+should be a topic string and non-nil RE-CACHE forces re-caching.
+
+Note that `M-x woman' doesn’t yet support the latest features of
+modern man pages, so we recommend using `M-x man' if that is
+available on your system."
   (interactive (list nil current-prefix-arg))
   ;; The following test is for non-interactive calls via emacsclient, etc.
   (if (or (not (stringp topic)) (string-match-p "\\S " topic))