* Man-getpage-in-background: set half an env var?
@ 2003-04-06 20:05 Kai Großjohann
2003-04-06 23:07 ` Richard Stallman
2003-04-07 14:21 ` Werner LEMBERG
0 siblings, 2 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Kai Großjohann @ 2003-04-06 20:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
The function either calls the man command via start-process or via
call-process, depending on (fboundp 'start-process). In the
call-process case, the environment variable GROFF_NO_SGR is set to 1,
but in the start-process case, this does not happen.
Is this intentional?
(I have no idea what the env var does; "man groff" doesn't say.
Maybe if I knew I'd also know that my question was silly. But as it
is, maybe a comment in the source code could be useful?)
--
A preposition is not a good thing to end a sentence with.
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: Man-getpage-in-background: set half an env var?
2003-04-06 20:05 Man-getpage-in-background: set half an env var? Kai Großjohann
@ 2003-04-06 23:07 ` Richard Stallman
2003-04-07 9:34 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-04-07 14:21 ` Werner LEMBERG
1 sibling, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Richard Stallman @ 2003-04-06 23:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: emacs-devel
The function either calls the man command via start-process or via
call-process, depending on (fboundp 'start-process). In the
call-process case, the environment variable GROFF_NO_SGR is set to 1,
but in the start-process case, this does not happen.
I probably didn't notice, when I changed it to set GROFF_NO_SGR,
that there were two places to do it. Would you please make it set
that variable in both cases?
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: Man-getpage-in-background: set half an env var?
2003-04-06 23:07 ` Richard Stallman
@ 2003-04-07 9:34 ` Kai Großjohann
0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Kai Großjohann @ 2003-04-07 9:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> I probably didn't notice, when I changed it to set GROFF_NO_SGR,
> that there were two places to do it. Would you please make it set
> that variable in both cases?
Done.
--
A preposition is not a good thing to end a sentence with.
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: Man-getpage-in-background: set half an env var?
2003-04-06 20:05 Man-getpage-in-background: set half an env var? Kai Großjohann
2003-04-06 23:07 ` Richard Stallman
@ 2003-04-07 14:21 ` Werner LEMBERG
2003-04-07 15:51 ` Kai Großjohann
1 sibling, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Werner LEMBERG @ 2003-04-07 14:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: emacs-devel
[About GROFF_NO_SGR]
> (I have no idea what the env var does; "man groff" doesn't say.
`man grotty' does.
Werner
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: Man-getpage-in-background: set half an env var?
2003-04-07 14:21 ` Werner LEMBERG
@ 2003-04-07 15:51 ` Kai Großjohann
0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Kai Großjohann @ 2003-04-07 15:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org> writes:
> [About GROFF_NO_SGR]
>
>> (I have no idea what the env var does; "man groff" doesn't say.
>
> `man grotty' does.
Not on my system :-/
But now I've Googled and found it. This confirms my speculation that
GROFF_NO_SGR should be set in both cases.
--
A preposition is not a good thing to end a sentence with.
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
end of thread, other threads:[~2003-04-07 15:51 UTC | newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages (download: mbox.gz / follow: Atom feed)
-- links below jump to the message on this page --
2003-04-06 20:05 Man-getpage-in-background: set half an env var? Kai Großjohann
2003-04-06 23:07 ` Richard Stallman
2003-04-07 9:34 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-04-07 14:21 ` Werner LEMBERG
2003-04-07 15:51 ` Kai Großjohann
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).