Subject: Re: bug#12098: How to trap errors in man?

From: Juri Linkov <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2012 02:10:54 +0300

> things freezing for any reason should be something to be removed
> everywhere, not an excuse for allowing more badness.
>
> Async fetching and formatting of man pages is very useful if the man
> page is on a remote host running a different OS.

I guess the distinction is exactly like between sync and async
shell commands.  When you know that a command will finish quickly,
`shell-command' is more preferable, whereas `async-shell-command'
is better for a long-running process.