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

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From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org>
Cc: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>, 12098 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12098: How to trap errors in man?
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2020 13:51:02 +0000

Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org> writes:

> As I said earlier in the thread, this seems only to add complexity (for
> example making it hard to reuse `man` for other things, the reason I filed
> this issue originally) for no useful gain on modern machines (the delay
> when formatting even the longest man page is short).

What if you are running this remotely using TRAMP?  What if you're on a
laggy network with an NFS mounted filesystem?  What if your disk is
failing and this command takes several seconds to complete?  etc.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas

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