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From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 25344@debbugs.gnu.org, "積丹尼 Dan Jacobson" <jidanni@jidanni.org>
Subject: bug#25344: man repaints entire screen even when there is no such manual page
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2019 05:40:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmnPaVKZtE-ygox0dfHxrWkojUVjtr3wufRL7UsJyuGMXw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871swkbee3.fsf@jidanni.org>

tags 25344 + wontfix
close 25344
quit

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
>>     <jidanni@jidanni.org>
>> Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2017 18:56:36 +0800
>>
>> If one has a very quick eye, one can discover M-x man "zzzyyyxxx"
>> repaints the entire screen before declaring in the minibuffer "No manual
>> entry for zzzyyyxxx". Doesn't seem very efficient.
>> Also one thinks the man page is coming in and looks at the screen, but
>> in fact it is just the screen being repainted. emacs-version "25.1.1"
>
> I think these are side effects of a change (for the better) whereby
> the 'man' program gets set up with a correct line width, which is
> impossible without creating a window before 'man' is run.  My HO is
> that this minor annoyance is a worthy price to pay for the problems
> solved by that change.

So this is the desired behaviour.  I'm consequently closing this as
wontfix.

If anyone disagrees, feel free to reopen.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas





      parent reply	other threads:[~2019-09-29  3:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-03 10:56 bug#25344: man repaints entire screen even when there is no such manual page 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2017-01-03 15:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-29  3:40 ` Stefan Kangas [this message]

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