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From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free@gmail.com>
Cc: Darren Hoo <darren.hoo@gmail.com>,
	Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
	emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Patch] reformat man buffer on the fly for man.el
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 12:28:03 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <rob65qub0.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAF+z6HQX5Lf5hkPNVBCEJBBVpb+mnGrA9-V7jzAN3EvuwY4GA@mail.gmail.com> (Xue Fuqiao's message of "Thu, 31 Oct 2013 22:07:50 +0800")

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.)

No need to mention it outside of its dedicated section, IMO.



  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-31 16:28 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 [this message]
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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