From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#5054: Man truncated Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:59:03 +0200 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <871vhwtr6g.fsf@mail.jurta.org> References: <4B3F58A5.6080701@gmx.at> <87ljgggfff.fsf@jidanni.org> <4B41BF95.2030106@gmx.at> <87ljge801v.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <4B423CBA.6050001@gmx.at> <87iqbfyoy4.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <4B459896.1050208@gmx.at> <87eim1ebsm.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <4B46EA66.8020905@gmx.at> <87aawnrwut.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87skadh1wc.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <4B4ADBDB.2000304@gmx.at> Reply-To: Juri Linkov , 5054@debbugs.gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1263248368 20996 80.91.229.12 (11 Jan 2010 22:19:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:19:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 5054@debbugs.gnu.org To: martin rudalics Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 11 23:19:20 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NUSbV-0005BP-5F for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:19:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42346 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NUSbV-0001gP-Ni for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:19:17 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NUSbQ-0001dR-8q for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:19:12 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NUSbL-0001Sf-Er for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:19:11 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=36818 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NUSbL-0001SP-9h for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:19:07 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:50895) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NUSbL-0006VE-01 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:19:07 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NUSKn-0005TS-TO; Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:02:01 -0500 X-Loop: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Followup-To: Juri Linkov , 5054@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-From: Juri Linkov Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:02:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Emacs-PR-Message: followup 5054 X-Emacs-PR-Package: emacs X-Emacs-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 5054-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B5054.126324726721002 (code B ref 5054); Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:02:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 5054) by debbugs.gnu.org; 11 Jan 2010 22:01:07 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NUSJu-0005Sh-TQ for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:01:07 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp-out3.starman.ee ([85.253.0.5] helo=mx1.starman.ee) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NUSJs-0005SM-Th for 5054@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:01:06 -0500 X-Virus-Scanned: by Amavisd-New at mx1.starman.ee Original-Received: from mail.starman.ee (82.131.94.221.cable.starman.ee [82.131.94.221]) by mx1.starman.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CB6A3F409A; Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:52 +0200 (EET) In-Reply-To: <4B4ADBDB.2000304@gmx.at> (martin rudalics's message of "Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:05:47 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.91 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-Spam-Score: -3.4 (---) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list X-Spam-Score: -3.4 (---) Resent-Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:02:01 -0500 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:34206 Archived-At: >> And what to do with the created frame? To leave it displaying >> an empty buffer? > > The window (which probably should be dedicated initially to avoid that > some other action steals it before formatting is complete) could first > display some text about the formatting process in progress My patch already inserts a line "Invoking manual-program man-args in the background" in the displayed buffer until formatting is complete. > and a more detailed text when formatting fails telling the user what > the potential reasons of the failure were and how to get rid of the > window or frame (and implicitly the temporary buffer). I think you are right. Exactly like e.g. `grep' displays the output *grep* buffer with the text "Grep finished with no matches found", so when `man' can't find a manpage, it should display a similar error message in the man output buffer. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/