From: Darren Hoo <darren.hoo@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Patch] reformat man buffer on the fly for man.el
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 12:24:45 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2iowfbd2q.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwv8uxbizrt.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> I think the right fix for that is to display the buffer before it gets
> filled
hmm, that's an option, but my last attempt was to add new function for
newcomers instead of changing the way how man.el works. I suppose your
suggestion needs more changes and might break things for "old" people who
have customized their Man-notify-method.
> so you don't need any new command like "Man-update-manpage".
I think I still need this. There's one thing I like Man more than
Info is that manpage can be re-formatted and it is easier for me to
read large blocks of text with long lines which makes the text less
cluttered.
When I lookup manpage occassionally I prefer reading some of it with
windows side by side. But when I find myself need to concentrate on one
looked-up manpage, I would like to C-x 1 then reformat the Man buffer
and read it from begin to end.
> It will also solve the problem that if generating
> the manpage takes a long time, it ends up popping up in your face
> unexpectedly (since you've lost patience in the mean time and moved on
> to something else).
Generating the manpage is so fast for me that this senario has never
occurred to me. Actually I find it unneccessary to call the command
asynchronouslly for me because I do not have to wait at all.
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?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-30 4:24 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 [this message]
2013-10-30 12:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-31 14:07 ` Xue Fuqiao
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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