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#12098: How to trap errors in man? Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2012 11:41:35 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87txwnvwao.fsf@mail.jurta.org> References: <87pq7b5uvr.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87ehnrqanr.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1343810573 27665 80.91.229.3 (1 Aug 2012 08:42:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2012 08:42:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 12098@debbugs.gnu.org To: Thierry Volpiatto Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 01 10:42:53 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SwUW4-00030H-O2 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Aug 2012 10:42:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45756 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SwUW4-0002hI-3T for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Aug 2012 04:42:52 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:49747) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SwUVw-0002gx-JM for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Aug 2012 04:42:50 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SwUVq-0006aF-TC for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Aug 2012 04:42:44 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:44441) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SwUVq-0006a6-QE for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Aug 2012 04:42:38 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SwUcz-00040U-O2 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Aug 2012 04:50:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Juri Linkov Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2012 08:50:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 12098 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 12098-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B12098.134381099515383 (code B ref 12098); Wed, 01 Aug 2012 08:50:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 12098) by debbugs.gnu.org; 1 Aug 2012 08:49:55 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53987 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SwUcs-000404-F2 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 01 Aug 2012 04:49:54 -0400 Original-Received: from ps18281.dreamhost.com ([69.163.218.105]:50044 helo=ps18281.dreamhostps.com) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SwUcn-0003zu-LB for 12098@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 01 Aug 2012 04:49:50 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (ps18281.dreamhostps.com [69.163.218.105]) by ps18281.dreamhostps.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F7EC451CB31; Wed, 1 Aug 2012 01:42:24 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87ehnrqanr.fsf@gmail.com> (Thierry Volpiatto's message of "Wed, 01 Aug 2012 10:27:52 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 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: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:62708 Archived-At: > `Man-getpage-in-background' use (if (fboundp 'start-process) to check if > it start an asynchronous process or not. > Why in Emacs-24 `start-process' would not exists? > Why instead don't you add an optional arg to `Man-getpage-in-background' > to make it synchronous? > It would be instead of (if (fboundp 'start-process): > (if synchronous start-man-synchronously start-man-async > This would allow to make an user variable that allow to choose if man is > async or not. Yes, this is what is implemented with a new `Man-async' in another post I just sent. Do you agree that man should be synchronous by default?