From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniel Mahu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: man pages in framepop Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 22:41:19 +0300 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20041026194119.GF3384@barba.ro> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1098819249 8205 80.91.229.6 (26 Oct 2004 19:34:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 19:34:09 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 26 21:34:02 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CMX4z-00051L-00 for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 21:34:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CMXCh-0007Fa-KM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 15:41:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CMXCY-0007F4-2D for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 15:41:50 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CMXCX-0007Ef-Bx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 15:41:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CMXCW-0007Ec-OE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 15:41:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [82.76.92.28] (helo=mail.barba.ro) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CMX4X-0004ZQ-DW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 15:33:33 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 8798 invoked by uid 1000); 26 Oct 2004 19:41:19 -0000 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-BitDefender-SpamStamp: 1.1.2 031000040111AAAEAAE X-BitDefender-Scanner: Clean, Agent: BitDefender Qmail 1.6.0 on mail.barba.ro X-BitDefender-Spam: No (13) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:21467 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:21467 Sebastian Luque wrote: > Dear List, > > I can't find what to customize in order to have man pages show up in a pop-up > frame (i.e. using framepop). I have the feeling I should do it in > special-display-regexps, but am not sure how to specify the regexp. The > format of the man output buffer name is "* Man TOPIC*. A related question is, > does the regexp need to be specified differently depending on whether one > does it directly in .emacs or through the customize interface? > > Thanks in advance, > '(special-display-regexps (quote ("\\*Man .*\\*"))) > ;; added to the custom-set-variables command in .emacs > > or > > (setq special-display-regexps (quote ("\\*Man .*\\*"))) > > or simply > > \*Man .*\* > > as value for special-display-regexps in customize did the trick in my > case. > > You may need to add a space before M, my buffers look like *Man TOPIC* > > --daniel Perfect! Thank you! Sebastian p.s. you might want to forward this to the list, as I'm not subscribed to it and got your reply by email, not the newsreader. --- Sorry, I didn't realize that, it seems my email client got a bit confused. --daniel