From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 63132@debbugs.gnu.org, asocial-hired.0l@icloud.com
Subject: bug#63132: Bug on Darwin MacOS with 'M-x man RET commandname[ ]'
Date: Mon, 01 May 2023 21:16:23 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83h6svor2g.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvsfcgexy3.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Mon, 01 May 2023 14:03:40 -0400)
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: asocial-hired.0l@icloud.com, 63132@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 01 May 2023 14:03:40 -0400
>
> >> So `M-x man RET 2 SPC TAB` should (hopefully) list all the section
> >> 2's manpages.
> > So you are saying the lags here are unavoidable?
>
> I don't know. I don't see any significant lag here.
The OP says it only happens on macOS, not on GNU/Linux.
> But if that's a problem, maybe we should tweak the system so we only
> fetch the list when there's at least one char after the space (to
> keep the list shorter)?
Something like that.
> The OP mentions Emacs crashing, which points to another problem than
> mere lag. I can't investigate this because I can't reproduce it here
> on Debian.
>
> And maybe it depends on the system (or more specifically on what kind of
> `man` program is installed and how it supports `man -k`; e/g. if
> there's no prebuilt index and `man -k` scans through all the installed
> troff pages every time)?
Any macOS users out there who could reproduce and debug this?
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2023-04-27 21:10 bug#63132: Bug on Darwin MacOS with 'M-x man RET commandname[ ]' asocial-hired.0l--- via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-04-28 6:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2023-04-28 7:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-28 10:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-28 15:18 ` Arteen1000
2023-05-01 16:30 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-05-01 16:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-01 18:03 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-05-01 18:16 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-05-02 6:33 ` Eshel Yaron via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-05-02 12:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-02 12:52 ` Eshel Yaron via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-05-02 13:17 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-05-03 12:09 ` Eshel Yaron via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-05-04 22:36 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-05-03 11:35 ` Rudolf Adamkovič via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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