From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#61552: Feature request: Add variable Man-prefer-synchronous-call Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2023 13:30:46 +0200 Message-ID: <83edq7e6ft.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87h6vlpp18.fsf@sebyte.me> <87zg9dsfjs.fsf@tcd.ie> <87edqkcim2.fsf@sebyte.me> <87edqjmh6p.fsf@gmail.com> <87lekr9km4.fsf@sebyte.me> <87a617m5xs.fsf@gmail.com> <87zg95lixj.fsf@sebyte.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="20807"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 61552-done@debbugs.gnu.org To: Sebastian Tennant Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 02 12:31:40 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1pXh9v-0005BS-4E for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; 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Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pXh98-000262-16; Thu, 02 Mar 2023 06:30:50 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87zg95lixj.fsf@sebyte.me> (message from Sebastian Tennant on Wed, 22 Feb 2023 17:16:24 +0000) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:257137 Archived-At: > From: Sebastian Tennant > Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2023 17:16:24 +0000 > > Quoth Robert Pluim > on Tue, 21 Feb 2023 15:47:11 +0100: > > […] > > Everything in Emacs should be in the manual :-) > > Indeed. > > > […] > > Sorry, I meant "a complete sentence, and only taking up one screen > > line, not exceeding `emacs-lisp-docstring-fill-column'", ie > > > > Whether to call the Un*x 'man' command synchronously. > > When this is non-nil call 'man' synchronously instead of the default > > asynchronous behaviour. > > > > since `apropos' displays only the first line > > Understood. Hopefully this updated patch (against master) is starting > to look acceptable: Thanks, installed on the master branch, and closing the bug. Assuming that you want to be able to submit contributions to Emacs in the future, would you like to start the legal paperwork of assigning the copyright for your changes to the FSF? If yes, I will send you the form to fill to start the paperwork.