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From: Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>, Darren Hoo <darren.hoo@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Patch] reformat man buffer on the fly for man.el
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 22:07:50 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAF+z6HQX5Lf5hkPNVBCEJBBVpb+mnGrA9-V7jzAN3EvuwY4GA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwviowfvtpi.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>

On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 8:27 PM, Stefan Monnier
<monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>> One question about the following code:
>
>>   (if (fboundp 'start-process)
>>      (start-process ...)
>>     (call-process ...))
>
>> Is it due to once in Emacs history when there is no `start-process' but
>> only `call-process', Can you fill me in?
>
> The FreeDOS build of Emacs doesn't support start-process (because
> FreeDOS doesn't support multiprocessing).

That's true.  Maybe we should add some comments here or to (info
"(elisp) Asynchronous Processes") ?

-- 
Best regards, Xue Fuqiao.
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/



  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-31 14:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-25  6:28 [Patch] reformat man buffer on the fly for man.el Darren Hoo
2013-10-29 20:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-30  4:24   ` Darren Hoo
2013-10-30 12:27     ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-31 14:07       ` Xue Fuqiao [this message]
2013-10-31 16:28         ` Glenn Morris
2013-10-31 17:20           ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-10-31 17:37             ` DOS versions [was Re: [Patch] reformat man buffer on the fly for man.el] Glenn Morris
2013-10-31 18:08               ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-10-31 23:05               ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-11-08  4:11 ` [Patch] reformat man buffer on the fly for man.el Stefan Monnier

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