3.1.2 Using the "Word at Point" as a Topic Suggestion

By default, the woman command uses the word nearest to point in the current buffer as a suggestion for the topic to look up, if it exists as a valid topic. The topic can be confirmed or edited in the minibuffer.

You can also bind the variable woman-use-topic-at-point locally to a non-nil value (using let), in which case woman will can use the suggested topic without confirmation if possible. This may be useful to provide special private key bindings, e.g., this key binding for C-c w runs WoMan on the topic at point without seeking confirmation:

(global-set-key "\C-cw"
                (lambda ()
                  (interactive)
                  (let ((woman-use-topic-at-point t))
                    (woman))))