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

From: Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org>
To: 12098 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#12098: Acknowledgement (How to trap errors in man?)
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 14:36:33 +0100

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.

Of course, this works for my application (a wrapper for standalone
Emacs), but it's not so good for use in code that is supposed to work
in a normal Emacs session.

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