From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
To: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
Cc: 67388@debbugs.gnu.org, Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
Subject: bug#67388: 30.0.50; Unintended man page buffer-name change?
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2023 17:59:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fs0otrzw.fsf@rub.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87leapzbta.fsf@gmx.net> (Stephen Berman's message of "Wed, 22 Nov 2023 23:02:25 +0100")
On Wed, 22 Nov 2023 23:02:25 +0100 Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net> wrote:
> 0. emacs -Q
> 1. M-x man RET cat RET
> 2. M-: (buffer-name)
> => "*Man cat *"
>
> If you do the same in emacs-29, the result is:
> "*Man cat*"
>
> AFAICS this change is due to this commit:
>
> commit 861ac933dd8aed1028edc4b9142400e3702874d5
> Author: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
> Commit: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
> CommitDate: Wed Nov 1 16:54:31 2023 +0100
>
> Run `man' also on remote systems
>
> If the change was intended, it should be called out in NEWS. If it was
> unintended, this patch restores the previous behavior, at least when
> calling man locally (I currently can't test a remote call):
>
> diff --git a/lisp/man.el b/lisp/man.el
> index f18e2f50b7c..3efa29d7aad 100644
> --- a/lisp/man.el
> +++ b/lisp/man.el
> @@ -1191,8 +1191,8 @@ Man-getpage-in-background
> (man-args topic)
> (bufname
> (if (file-remote-p default-directory)
> - (format "*Man %s %s *" (file-remote-p default-directory) man-args)
> - (format "*Man %s *" man-args)))
> + (format "*Man %s %s*" (file-remote-p default-directory) man-args)
> + (format "*Man %s*" man-args)))
> (buffer (get-buffer bufname)))
> (if buffer
> (Man-notify-when-ready buffer)
Given no reponse in a week, perhaps this fell under the radar, in
particular that of Michael Albinus (added to Cc:). Michael, if you
confirm this was just a typo, I can install the patch to save you the
effort. If it's not a typo, then you're in a better position than me to
decide what to do.
Steve Berman
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2023-11-22 22:02 bug#67388: 30.0.50; Unintended man page buffer-name change? Stephen Berman
2023-11-29 16:59 ` Stephen Berman [this message]
2023-11-29 17:21 ` Michael Albinus
2023-11-29 17:47 ` Stephen Berman
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