From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Man-getpage-in-background: set half an env var? Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2003 22:05:27 +0200 Organization: University of Duisburg, Germany Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <84he9bpf20.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1049659823 32436 80.91.224.249 (6 Apr 2003 20:10:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2003 20:10:23 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 06 22:10:21 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 192GT6-0008QU-00 for ; Sun, 06 Apr 2003 22:10:20 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 192GWH-0007Xv-00 for ; Sun, 06 Apr 2003 22:13:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 192GRU-0004W4-09 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sun, 06 Apr 2003 16:08:40 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 192GQq-00042H-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Apr 2003 16:08:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 192GQm-0003qA-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Apr 2003 16:07:56 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 192GQG-0003Th-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Apr 2003 16:07:24 -0400 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 192GPp-0008B0-00 for ; Sun, 06 Apr 2003 22:06:57 +0200 Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 192GPp-0008Ao-00 for ; Sun, 06 Apr 2003 22:06:57 +0200 Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.090018 (Oort Gnus v0.18) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZkPjVHzqzIG/Q55rrI0An5FKWFA= X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:12934 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:12934 The function either calls the man command via start-process or via call-process, depending on (fboundp 'start-process). In the call-process case, the environment variable GROFF_NO_SGR is set to 1, but in the start-process case, this does not happen. Is this intentional? (I have no idea what the env var does; "man groff" doesn't say. Maybe if I knew I'd also know that my question was silly. But as it is, maybe a comment in the source code could be useful?) -- A preposition is not a good thing to end a sentence with.