From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "積丹尼 Dan Jacobson" <jidanni@jidanni.org>
Cc: 25344@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25344: man repaints entire screen even when there is no such manual page
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2017 17:56:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83d1g4f875.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871swkbee3.fsf@jidanni.org>
> From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
> <jidanni@jidanni.org>
> Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2017 18:56:36 +0800
>
> If one has a very quick eye, one can discover M-x man "zzzyyyxxx"
> repaints the entire screen before declaring in the minibuffer "No manual
> entry for zzzyyyxxx". Doesn't seem very efficient.
> Also one thinks the man page is coming in and looks at the screen, but
> in fact it is just the screen being repainted. emacs-version "25.1.1"
I think these are side effects of a change (for the better) whereby
the 'man' program gets set up with a correct line width, which is
impossible without creating a window before 'man' is run. My HO is
that this minor annoyance is a worthy price to pay for the problems
solved by that change.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-03 15:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-03 10:56 bug#25344: man repaints entire screen even when there is no such manual page 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2017-01-03 15:56 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-09-29 3:40 ` Stefan Kangas
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