From: Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>
To: 12098@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12098: How to trap errors in man?
Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2012 11:29:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <876293q7tv.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOnWdogGgfh-7n3pVCXtohfSHTg2utAczYy9qaJ3MJopVc+wJQ@mail.gmail.com>
Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com> writes:
> Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org> writes:
>
>>> `Man-getpage-in-background' use (if (fboundp 'start-process) to check if
>>> it start an asynchronous process or not.
>>> Why in Emacs-24 `start-process' would not exists?
>>> Why instead don't you add an optional arg to `Man-getpage-in-background'
>>> to make it synchronous?
>>> It would be instead of (if (fboundp 'start-process):
>>> (if synchronous start-man-synchronously start-man-async
>>> This would allow to make an user variable that allow to choose if man is
>>> async or not.
>>
>> Yes, this is what is implemented with a new `Man-async'
>> in another post I just sent.
> Ah! good.
>
>> Do you agree that man should be synchronous by default?
> Yes.
>
> Also `Man-notify-method' should be more accessible (more let-bindable)
> probably by making it local, but I may be wrong there (need to look at
> the code).
Also while you are at it, it would be helpful to add a 't' value to the
require-match arg of completing-read in `man'.
Thanks.
--
Thierry
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Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-31 11:53 bug#12098: How to trap errors in man? Reuben Thomas
[not found] ` <handler.12098.B.13437360754310.ack@debbugs.gnu.org>
2012-07-31 13:36 ` bug#12098: Acknowledgement (How to trap errors in man?) Reuben Thomas
2012-07-31 16:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-01 0:15 ` bug#12098: How to trap errors in man? Juri Linkov
2012-08-01 0:38 ` Reuben Thomas
2012-08-01 8:23 ` Juri Linkov
2012-08-01 11:11 ` Reuben Thomas
2020-08-19 12:49 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-08-19 12:53 ` Reuben Thomas via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-08-19 13:08 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-08-19 13:08 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-19 13:10 ` Reuben Thomas via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-08-19 13:24 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-08-19 13:28 ` Reuben Thomas via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-08-19 13:51 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-08-19 13:51 ` Reuben Thomas via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-08-19 14:12 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-08-19 14:21 ` Reuben Thomas via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-08-19 15:17 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-08-19 15:22 ` Reuben Thomas via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-10-14 6:05 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-19 13:14 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-08-20 0:37 ` Juri Linkov
2020-08-21 7:25 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-08-21 7:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-21 9:41 ` Reuben Thomas via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2012-08-01 9:05 ` Andy Moreton
2012-08-01 23:10 ` Juri Linkov
2012-08-01 8:27 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-08-01 8:41 ` Juri Linkov
2012-08-01 8:58 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-08-01 9:29 ` Thierry Volpiatto [this message]
2012-08-01 23:12 ` Juri Linkov
2012-08-02 5:20 ` Thierry Volpiatto
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