From: Sebastian Tennant <sdt@sebyte.me>
To: 61552@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#61552: Feature request: Add variable Man-prefer-synchronous-call
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2023 18:11:17 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87edqkcim2.fsf@sebyte.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zg9dsfjs.fsf@tcd.ie> (Basil Contovounesios's message of "Thu, 16 Feb 2023 17:09:27 +0000")
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Quoth Basil Contovounesios <contovob@tcd.ie>
on Thu, 16 Feb 2023 17:09:27 +0000:
> […]
> Please attach the patches here so that they can be tracked in this
> bugtracker.
>
> Thanks,
No problem Basil. Here's a patch against master:
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From 179af66f885630a7bdf3d3f3146aceb8ad205ce6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sebastian Tennant <sdt@sebyte.me>
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2022 08:36:04 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add user-customizable variable Man-prefer-synchronous-call
* lisp/man.el (Man-getpage-in-background): Only call #'start-process
when 'make-process satisfies #'fboundp AND Man-prefer-synchronous-call
is bound to nil.
---
lisp/man.el | 9 ++++++++-
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/lisp/man.el b/lisp/man.el
index 286edf9314e..fb4f8f02db7 100644
--- a/lisp/man.el
+++ b/lisp/man.el
@@ -97,6 +97,12 @@ man
:group 'external
:group 'help)
+(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."
+ :type 'boolean
+ :group 'man)
+
(defcustom Man-filter-list nil
"Manpage cleaning filter command phrases.
This variable contains a list of the following form:
@@ -1118,7 +1124,8 @@ Man-getpage-in-background
"[cleaning...]")
'face 'mode-line-emphasis)))
(Man-start-calling
- (if (fboundp 'make-process)
+ (if (and (fboundp 'make-process)
+ (not Man-prefer-synchronous-call))
(let ((proc (start-process
manual-program buffer
(if (memq system-type '(cygwin windows-nt))
--
2.30.2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-02-20 18:11 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 [this message]
2023-02-21 10:44 ` Robert Pluim
2023-02-21 14:08 ` Sebastian Tennant
2023-02-21 14:47 ` Robert Pluim
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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