disable split frame while viewing manual pages?

disable split frame while viewing manual pages?

[peter360]

Wonder if someone could help me resolve this minor annoyance.

I like to view unix online manual pages in emacs (using M-x man).  But one
annoying thing is that the buffer is split vertically (into top and botton
frames) and the man page shows in the bottom frame.  As far as I know xemacs
does not do this by default.  In xemacs the man page buffer simply replaces
the current buffer and occupies the entire frame.  How can I get gnu emacs
to do the same thing?

thanks.
 
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Re: disable split frame while viewing manual pages?

[David Hansen]

On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:57:43 -0700 (PDT) peter wrote:

> Wonder if someone could help me resolve this minor annoyance.
>
> I like to view unix online manual pages in emacs (using M-x man).  But one
> annoying thing is that the buffer is split vertically (into top and botton
> frames) and the man page shows in the bottom frame.  As far as I know xemacs
> does not do this by default.  In xemacs the man page buffer simply replaces
> the current buffer and occupies the entire frame.  How can I get gnu emacs
> to do the same thing?

M-x customize-variable Man-notify-method

David

Re: disable split frame while viewing manual pages?

[peter360]

Tried that but got "no match" in the minibuffer.   Should I just set it in my
.emacs file?  What value should I set it to?  Thanks.


David Hansen-2 wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:57:43 -0700 (PDT) peter wrote:
> 
>> Wonder if someone could help me resolve this minor annoyance.
>>
>> I like to view unix online manual pages in emacs (using M-x man).  But
>> one
>> annoying thing is that the buffer is split vertically (into top and
>> botton
>> frames) and the man page shows in the bottom frame.  As far as I know
>> xemacs
>> does not do this by default.  In xemacs the man page buffer simply
>> replaces
>> the current buffer and occupies the entire frame.  How can I get gnu
>> emacs
>> to do the same thing?
> 
> M-x customize-variable Man-notify-method
> 
> David
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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Re: disable split frame while viewing manual pages?

[Rupert Swarbrick]

peter360 <peter360@fastmail.us> writes:

> Tried that but got "no match" in the minibuffer.  Should I just set
> it in my .emacs file?  What value should I set it to?  Thanks.
>

Try doing M-x man first (you don't have to get past the minibuffer
prompt). This will load up the lazy-loaded libraries and define
Man-notify-method for you.

Then you'll get completion (and a list of possible values) for M-x
customize-variable. (Because defcustom/defvar don't clobber existing
values, the setting from this will work in future, even though it gets
read at emacs load, before man load)


Rupert

Re: disable split frame while viewing manual pages?

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 18.06.2008 um 19:25 schrieb peter360:

>
> Tried that but got "no match" in the minibuffer.   Should I just  
> set it in my
> .emacs file?  What value should I set it to?  Thanks.

Create a *Man <whatever>* buffer, type C-h m in it and then visit the  
new *Help* buffer. From here you have access to this variable.

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Re: disable split frame while viewing manual pages?

[peter360]

Worked!  Thanks!

On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:36:21 +0200, "Peter Dyballa"
<Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> said:
> 
> Am 18.06.2008 um 19:25 schrieb peter360:
> 
> >
> > Tried that but got "no match" in the minibuffer.   Should I just  
> > set it in my
> > .emacs file?  What value should I set it to?  Thanks.
> 
> Create a *Man <whatever>* buffer, type C-h m in it and then visit the  
> new *Help* buffer. From here you have access to this variable.
> 
> --
> Greetings
> 
>    Pete
> 
> Engineer: a mechanism for converting caffeine into designs
> 
> 
> 
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