From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Patch] reformat man buffer on the fly for man.el Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 19:20:57 +0200 Message-ID: <83vc0dcq6e.fsf@gnu.org> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1383240097 29655 80.91.229.3 (31 Oct 2013 17:21:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 17:21:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: xfq.free@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, darren.hoo@gmail.com To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 31 18:21:40 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1Vbvw3-0008O8-Fz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Oct 2013 18:21:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58526 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vbvw3-0002l5-2F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Oct 2013 13:21:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41263) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vbvvu-0002k2-Or for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Oct 2013 13:21:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vbvvn-0002Of-42 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Oct 2013 13:21:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:50488) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vbvvm-0002OZ-SE; Thu, 31 Oct 2013 13:21:15 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MVJ00200MPRC200@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Thu, 31 Oct 2013 19:21:13 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MVJ002YMMVB9150@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Thu, 31 Oct 2013 19:21:12 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.175 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:164738 Archived-At: > From: Glenn Morris > Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 12:28:03 -0400 > Cc: Darren Hoo , > Stefan Monnier , > emacs-devel > > 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.