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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Darren Hoo <darren.hoo@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Patch] reformat man buffer on the fly for man.el
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 16:34:47 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv8uxbizrt.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2li1h3lvc.fsf@gmail.com>

> As man works by invoking the man command background, it is not easy to
> figure out how wide the buffer is going to be displayed, so the width
> guess is not always correct,

I think the right fix for that is to display the buffer before it
gets filled, so you don't need any new command like
"Man-update-manpage".  It will also solve the problem that if generating
the manpage takes a long time, it ends up popping up in your face
unexpectedly (since you've lost patience in the mean time and moved on
to something else).


        Stefan



  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-29 20:34 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 [this message]
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
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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