From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
To: Sebastian Tennant <sdt@sebyte.me>
Cc: 61552@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#61552: Feature request: Add variable Man-prefer-synchronous-call
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2023 15:47:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a617m5xs.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lekr9km4.fsf@sebyte.me> (Sebastian Tennant's message of "Tue, 21 Feb 2023 14:08:35 +0000")
>>>>> On Tue, 21 Feb 2023 14:08:35 +0000, Sebastian Tennant <sdt@sebyte.me> said:
>> (and add a description to the manual, if that makes sense)
Sebastian> Sure. I didn't think reading manpages would have an entry in the
Sebastian> manual but, sure enough, it does:
Everything in Emacs should be in the manual :-)
Sebastian> (info "(emacs) Man Page")
Sebastian> I shall edit doc/emacs/programs.texi accordingly.
>> […]
>>> (defcustom Man-prefer-synchronous-call nil
>>> "Non-nil means always call the Un*x man command synchronously,
>>> rather than asynchronously, which is the default behaviour."
>>
>> The first line should be a complete sentence. Something like
>>
>> "Whether to call the Un*x 'manʼ command synchronously."
Sebastian> How about this:
Sebastian> "Control whether the Un*x 'man' command is called synchronously or
Sebastian> asynchronously. (Asynchronous is the default)."
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
Robert
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-02-21 14:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-02-16 16:12 bug#61552: Feature request: Add variable Man-prefer-synchronous-call Sebastian Tennant
2023-02-16 17:09 ` Basil Contovounesios via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-02-20 18:11 ` Sebastian Tennant
2023-02-21 10:44 ` Robert Pluim
2023-02-21 14:08 ` Sebastian Tennant
2023-02-21 14:47 ` Robert Pluim [this message]
2023-02-22 17:16 ` Sebastian Tennant
2023-03-02 11:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-03-03 8:51 ` Sebastian Tennant
2023-03-03 11:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-21 9:53 ` Stefan Kangas
2023-02-21 12:16 ` Sebastian Tennant
2023-02-21 12:28 ` Sebastian Tennant
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