From: Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: 12098@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12098: How to trap errors in man?
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2012 12:11:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOnWdog0=DOWMts6E-TvJxpeOcB+CY5VpC31xboreHpGFE8nfA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87txwnxbbx.fsf@mail.jurta.org>
On 1 August 2012 09:23, Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org> wrote:
>
> You are right, the largest man page `man bash' takes just 2 sec to format,
> so perhaps it makes no sense to run the man command asynchronously nowadays.
I would certainly take that view if it were I who had to maintain the code!
> I don't know if it's possible with lack of multi-threading
> to yield to the command loop while waiting for the process output.
> But with the following patch you can run `man' synchronously
> by using just `(let ((Man-async nil)) (man "bash"))' when its
> default value is not nil.
That looks great if the patch were installed.
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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 [this message]
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
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2020-08-19 14:21 ` Reuben Thomas via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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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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