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Tue, 21 Feb 2023 06:47:12 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87lekr9km4.fsf@sebyte.me> (Sebastian Tennant's message of "Tue, 21 Feb 2023 14:08:35 +0000") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:256277 Archived-At: >>>>> On Tue, 21 Feb 2023 14:08:35 +0000, Sebastian Tennant = said: >> (and add a description to the manual, if that makes sense) Sebastian> Sure. I didn't think reading manpages would have an entry i= n the Sebastian> manual but, sure enough, it does: Everything in Emacs should be in the manual :-) Sebastian> (info "(emacs) Man Page") Sebastian> I shall edit doc/emacs/programs.texi accordingly. >> [=E2=80=A6] >>> (defcustom Man-prefer-synchronous-call nil >>> "Non-nil means always call the Un*x man command synchronously, >>> rather than asynchronously, which is the default behaviour." >>=20 >> The first line should be a complete sentence. Something like >>=20 >> "Whether to call the Un*x 'man=CA=BC command synchronously." Sebastian> How about this: Sebastian> "Control whether the Un*x 'man' command is called synchrono= usly or Sebastian> asynchronously. (Asynchronous is the default)." Sorry, I meant "a complete sentence, and only taking up one screen line, not exceeding `emacs-lisp-docstring-fill-column'", ie Whether to call the Un*x 'man' command synchronously. When this is non-nil call 'man' synchronously instead of the default asynchronous behaviour. since `apropos' displays only the first line Robert --=20