Re: [PATCH] ol-man.el (org-man-open): Set window point not buffer point

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com>]

Tom Gillespie <tgbugs@gmail.com> writes:

> Here's a patch to fix the follow behavior for ol-man links so
> that the ::SEARCH functionality will actually work. Best!
> Tom
> From 2c3e3b994fd7b47a6e91d147d2b1f08cd97a1908 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Tom Gillespie <tgbugs@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2022 23:33:22 -0700
> Subject: [PATCH] * lisp/ol-man.el (org-man-open): Set window point not buffer
>  point

Thanks for the contribution!

> When passed man:path::SEARCH org-man-open tries to use search-forward
> to jump to the location of e.g. a heading. Prior to this fix it only
> used search-forward, which will not change the point of the cursor in
> the window, meaning that even if there is a match it will not appear.

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> Use sleep-for as a horrible hack to work around the fact that the man
> command runs in the background with no way to synchronize back.

This is indeed a horrible hack. What about `accept-process-output'?

Best,
Ihor