GNU bug report logs - #12098
Optionally support synchronous operation for `M-x man'

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org>

Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 12:02:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: wontfix

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at 12098 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org>
Cc: 12098 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#12098: Acknowledgement (How to trap errors in man?)
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 19:27:51 +0300

> Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 14:36:33 +0100
> From: Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org>
> 
> I found a workaround: unbind start-process, which causes man to be run
> synchronously, which means that there's no process-sentinel to trap
> any error, so the caller can trap it.

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