* if can't find man page, prompt for another
@ 2002-07-10 4:28 Dan Jacobson
2002-07-11 6:43 ` Francesco Potorti`
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From: Dan Jacobson @ 2002-07-10 4:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
M-x man gnupg
Loading man...done
Invoking man gnupg in the background
Please wait: making up the gnupg man page...
gnupg man page made up
error in process sentinel: Man-goto-page: Can't find the gnupg manpage
error in process sentinel: Can't find the gnupg manpage
OK, how about here prompting me for a different man page, instead of
having me type in
M-x man (gpg) again.
True in the shell we don't get such pampering, but a ^P and we are
back in action. In emacs it is an ESC x ESC p RET ... etc.
Anyways the current feeling is one has caused a big error and all the
wheels fall off and you are left there sitting in the middle of the
street. There is even a flash or beep to make you feel more silly:
oh, Jenkins on the terminal in row 4 committed another error.
Instead my approach brings the warmth of mom to the user: no Jenkins,
you are not wrong. It is the tool providers fault for the confusing
man page name which you didn't remember. Here, have a prompt, and try
again.
--
http://jidanni.org/ Taiwan(04)25854780
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* Re: if can't find man page, prompt for another
2002-07-10 4:28 if can't find man page, prompt for another Dan Jacobson
@ 2002-07-11 6:43 ` Francesco Potorti`
2002-07-11 7:00 ` Miles Bader
2002-07-12 11:12 ` Richard Stallman
0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Francesco Potorti` @ 2002-07-11 6:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
Please wait: making up the gnupg man page...
gnupg man page made up
error in process sentinel: Man-goto-page: Can't find the gnupg manpage
error in process sentinel: Can't find the gnupg manpage
OK, how about here prompting me for a different man page, instead of
having me type in M-x man (gpg) again.
This is a good idea, in my opinion. It was me that originally wrote the
code that signals an error. But sorry, I have not the time now to make
the necessary (small) changes to implement Dan's idea.
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* Re: if can't find man page, prompt for another
2002-07-11 6:43 ` Francesco Potorti`
@ 2002-07-11 7:00 ` Miles Bader
2002-07-12 11:12 ` Richard Stallman
1 sibling, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Miles Bader @ 2002-07-11 7:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
pot@gnu.org (Francesco Potorti`) writes:
> OK, how about here prompting me for a different man page, instead of
> having me type in M-x man (gpg) again.
>
> This is a good idea, in my opinion.
I'm not so sure; it could also be annoying.
In my experience, it's much more common for M-x man to fail because
there _is_ no man page for a program, not because I typed something
wrong. Re-prompting is just a waste of time in that case. I also think
that it's a good general rule for a command to have a single consistent
terminating state, error or no; it's simply less surprising for the
user.
-Miles
--
I'd rather be consing.
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* Re: if can't find man page, prompt for another
2002-07-11 6:43 ` Francesco Potorti`
2002-07-11 7:00 ` Miles Bader
@ 2002-07-12 11:12 ` Richard Stallman
1 sibling, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Richard Stallman @ 2002-07-12 11:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: emacs-devel
This is a good idea, in my opinion. It was me that originally wrote the
code that signals an error. But sorry, I have not the time now to make
the necessary (small) changes to implement Dan's idea.
I agree with Miles--this change would be a bad idea. We won't make
this change.
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