From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Richard Copley <rcopley@gmail.com>
Cc: 33510@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#33510: 26.1.90; M-x man crashes if invoking man fails
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2018 18:21:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <838t1fizcq.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPM58oj=HNEVVsaqJGtUmDatZnmCaS1r5yx86-48jiw2u_7nGQ@mail.gmail.com> (message from Richard Copley on Mon, 26 Nov 2018 12:34:41 +0000)
> From: Richard Copley <rcopley@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2018 12:34:41 +0000
>
> If invoking 'man' fails, M-x man crashes, with errors:
> error in process sentinel: read-event: Buffer is read-only: #<buffer *Man xyzzy*>
> error in process sentinel: Buffer is read-only: #<buffer *Man xyzzy*>
Signaling an error is a far cry from a crash...
> To reproduce from 'emacs -Q':
> M-x man RET
> xyzzy RET
I cannot reproduce this, at least not on GNU/Linux: there, I get
Can't find the xyzzy manpage
as expected. On MS-Windows I get this instead:
No manual entry for xyzzy.
So I think the problem is triggered by something done by the 'man'
port you have installed (an MSYS2 'man', perhaps?). What does it say
if you invoke it from the shell prompt?
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2018-11-26 12:34 bug#33510: 26.1.90; M-x man crashes if invoking man fails Richard Copley
2018-11-26 16:21 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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2018-11-26 17:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-12-01 9:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
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