From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: does (setq Man-switches "-a") work?
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2019 12:37:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83d0d9odjb.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <865zj1wti9.fsf@zoho.eu> (message from Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor on Sat, 30 Nov 2019 11:25:34 +0100)
> Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2019 11:25:34 +0100
> From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>
> > Did you try "C-h m" and look for a command to
> > go to the next page?
>
> I thought the option would make it appear all
> in one page (i.e. one Emacs buffer), as the
> man(1) pager (/usr/bin/man) does with that
> option in the shell for Unix users.
I guess we display "page 1 of N" to make it clear that's not so.
> Does Emacs invoke an external pager or does it
> happen in-house?
The latter.
> If so (in-house), what switches are supported? If not, what pager is
> used?
There's no pager involved, so I don't understand what switches could
be relevant here. See Man-goto-page for how the paging is done.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-30 10:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-30 5:22 does (setq Man-switches "-a") work? Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2019-11-30 7:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-30 10:25 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2019-11-30 10:37 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-11-30 10:40 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2019-11-30 12:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-30 12:42 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2019-11-30 12:56 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2019-11-30 14:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-30 14:38 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2019-11-30 16:37 ` Omar Polo
2019-11-30 18:07 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2019-11-30 14:27 ` Perry Smith
2019-11-30 14:40 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2019-11-30 15:08 ` Perry Smith
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