From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 17831@debbugs.gnu.org, sdl.web@gmail.com
Subject: bug#17831: 24.4.50; bad default value for `Man-width'
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 02:48:35 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tx79es0g.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv61jqvysf.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Tue, 24 Jun 2014 16:29:48 -0400")
> But I still prefer an async process that gives me:
> - empty buffer after 0s
> - full first page displayed after 0.1s
> - buffer fully filled and ready after 5s
> over a sync process that blocks for 3s.
This simple patch displays the buffer immediately,
but then slowly fills it with unformatted output
that doesn't look nice. So maybe better would be to create
a temporary hidden buffer, do formatting in background,
and copy the formatted text to the displayed buffer.
=== modified file 'lisp/man.el'
--- lisp/man.el 2014-05-09 07:02:00 +0000
+++ lisp/man.el 2014-06-24 23:47:12 +0000
@@ -1056,6 +1056,7 @@ (defun Man-getpage-in-background (topic)
(require 'env)
(message "Invoking %s %s in the background" manual-program man-args)
(setq buffer (generate-new-buffer bufname))
+ (Man-notify-when-ready buffer)
(with-current-buffer buffer
(setq buffer-undo-list t)
(setq Man-original-frame (selected-frame))
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-24 23:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-22 13:30 bug#17831: 24.4.50; bad default value for `Man-width' Leo Liu
2014-06-23 12:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-06-23 23:17 ` Juri Linkov
2014-06-24 1:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-06-24 7:13 ` martin rudalics
2014-06-24 12:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-06-24 15:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-24 17:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-06-24 17:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-25 6:54 ` martin rudalics
2014-06-24 15:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-24 17:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-06-24 17:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-24 19:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-06-24 20:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-24 20:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-06-24 23:48 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2014-06-25 3:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-06-26 23:49 ` Juri Linkov
2014-06-27 2:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-06-27 23:45 ` Juri Linkov
2014-06-28 1:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-06-29 23:42 ` Juri Linkov
2014-06-30 3:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-06-24 23:42 ` Juri Linkov
2014-06-25 6:54 ` martin rudalics
2014-06-24 23:44 ` bug#17809: 24.4.50; Completions display Juri Linkov
2014-06-25 6:54 ` martin rudalics
2014-06-26 23:41 ` Juri Linkov
2014-06-27 2:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-06-27 6:43 ` martin rudalics
2014-06-27 23:54 ` Juri Linkov
2014-06-28 8:18 ` martin rudalics
2014-06-29 23:47 ` Juri Linkov
2014-07-01 23:30 ` Juri Linkov
2014-07-04 23:40 ` Juri Linkov
2014-07-06 4:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-07-06 23:32 ` Juri Linkov
2014-07-07 1:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-07-07 1:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-07-07 6:49 ` Juri Linkov
2014-07-08 3:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-07-08 8:03 ` Juri Linkov
2014-06-27 6:43 ` martin rudalics
2014-06-27 23:53 ` Juri Linkov
2014-06-28 8:17 ` martin rudalics
2014-06-23 23:21 ` bug#17831: 24.4.50; bad default value for `Man-width' Leo Liu
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