From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: xfq.free@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org,
monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, darren.hoo@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [Patch] reformat man buffer on the fly for man.el
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 19:20:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83vc0dcq6e.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <rob65qub0.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
> From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 12:28:03 -0400
> Cc: Darren Hoo <darren.hoo@gmail.com>,
> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
> emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
>
> Xue Fuqiao wrote:
>
> >> The FreeDOS build of Emacs doesn't support start-process (because
> >> FreeDOS doesn't support multiprocessing).
>
> > That's true. Maybe we should add some comments here or to (info
> > "(elisp) Asynchronous Processes") ?
>
> It's already mentioned in the MS-DOS section of the Emacs manual.
> (Unlike the word "FreeDOS", which appears nowhere in Emacs, BTW.)
"MS-DOS" is not a specific system, it's a family of systems (which
includes FreeDOS, but is not limited to it). I see no reason to
include in the manual a list of all the systems in that family,
certainly not at this time.
> No need to mention it outside of its dedicated section, IMO.
Agreed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-31 17:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-25 6:28 [Patch] reformat man buffer on the fly for man.el Darren Hoo
2013-10-29 20:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-30 4:24 ` Darren Hoo
2013-10-30 12:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-31 14:07 ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-10-31 16:28 ` Glenn Morris
2013-10-31 17:20 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2013-10-31 17:37 ` DOS versions [was Re: [Patch] reformat man buffer on the fly for man.el] Glenn Morris
2013-10-31 18:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-10-31 23:05 ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-11-08 4:11 ` [Patch] reformat man buffer on the fly for man.el Stefan Monnier
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