mani.el is yet another Emacs package to read Man page.

"Why not man.el or woman.el"?

1. man.el does not support remote Man page.

   I frequently work in a remote environment (with TRAMP): a remote machine (usually Linux), from a macOS laptop.

   In that case, I prefer seeing Man pages in that machine, e.g. Linux system calls instead of BSD ones, and tools installed on servers not on my laptop.

2. One can manage woman.el to find remote man page file, but woman.el does not always parse correctly.

   For example, "woman ls" produces the following sequences in my machine:

    .Dd May 19, 2002
    .Dt LS 1
    .Os
    .Sh NAME
    .Nm ls
    .Nd list directory contents
    ...
   

mani.el is a just-work Man page reader:

1. It invokes the man program to produce the content. So if man works, mani.el works.

2. It uses process-file to run the man program. So it is "remote-aware". If the current default-directory is a remote one, man is invoked in that remote machine.

Limitations

mani.el is not any feature-rich like man.el and woman.el. It does not support navigation, completion, highlight, and caching functionalities. I find it just work, and am less-motivated to push it further.