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Optionally support synchronous operation for `M-x man'

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From: Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
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 14:51:46 +0100

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On Wed, 19 Aug 2020 at 14:51, Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se> wrote:

> 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.
>

No different from any other command that interacts with the disc and is
normally run synchronously.

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