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Re: [Patch] reformat man buffer on the fly for man.el
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Darren Hoo |
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Re: [Patch] reformat man buffer on the fly for man.el |
Date: |
Wed, 30 Oct 2013 12:24:45 +0800 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (darwin) |
Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> 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?
- [Patch] reformat man buffer on the fly for man.el, Darren Hoo, 2013/10/25
- Re: [Patch] reformat man buffer on the fly for man.el, Stefan Monnier, 2013/10/29
- Re: [Patch] reformat man buffer on the fly for man.el,
Darren Hoo <=
- Re: [Patch] reformat man buffer on the fly for man.el, Stefan Monnier, 2013/10/30
- Re: [Patch] reformat man buffer on the fly for man.el, Xue Fuqiao, 2013/10/31
- Re: [Patch] reformat man buffer on the fly for man.el, Glenn Morris, 2013/10/31
- Re: [Patch] reformat man buffer on the fly for man.el, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/10/31
- DOS versions [was Re: [Patch] reformat man buffer on the fly for man.el], Glenn Morris, 2013/10/31
- Re: DOS versions [was Re: [Patch] reformat man buffer on the fly for man.el], Eli Zaretskii, 2013/10/31
- Re: DOS versions [was Re: [Patch] reformat man buffer on the fly for man.el], Xue Fuqiao, 2013/10/31