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* bug#40888: M-x man: don't redraw good pages when not finding bad pages
@ 2020-04-26 22:59 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
  2020-04-27  8:33 ` Tomas Nordin
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread
From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson @ 2020-04-26 22:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 40888

$ emacs -q
M-x man cat
M-x man dog

Why does it have to redraw the entire cat man page, before just saying
it can't find dog? Why can't it just say it can't find dog?
Just leave the good page there undisturbed.

Redrawing the cat man page makes our eyes think maybe it has got
something new, when it hasn't.

It also distracts us from noticing the failure message in the
minibuffer.

emacs-version "26.3".





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2020-04-26 22:59 bug#40888: M-x man: don't redraw good pages when not finding bad pages 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2020-04-27  8:33 ` Tomas Nordin
2020-04-27 14:54   ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2020-04-27 15:07     ` Stefan Kangas
2020-04-27 20:25       ` Tomas Nordin
2020-08-05 11:28       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-06  5:32         ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2020-08-06  7:17           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-06 13:40           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-06 17:39             ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2020-08-06 17:41               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-20 14:17                 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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