From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>, 12098@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12098: How to trap errors in man?
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2020 14:12:19 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmkbTcUOzKoDMa1uRzqJX4+dGicatCoqkw-+wKGQcVPjDw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOnWdogjPoBTr4b-k-qsfTdvZ8+=wy7uiyKeR6NexyrqBQ+n=Q@mail.gmail.com>
Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org> writes:
>> What if you are running this remotely using TRAMP? What if you're on a
>> laggy network with an NFS mounted filesystem? What if your disk is
>> failing and this command takes several seconds to complete? etc.
>
> No different from any other command that interacts with the disc and is
> normally run synchronously.
Yes, so your entire Emacs session will block. In other words, less than
satisfactory.
Best regards,
Stefan Kangas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-19 14:12 UTC|newest]
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 [this message]
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
2012-08-01 23:12 ` Juri Linkov
2012-08-02 5:20 ` Thierry Volpiatto
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