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long man pages cut off

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From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: long man pages cut off
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 2016 03:43:56 +0800

(man "Math::Trig") consistently gets cut off at

   great_circle_direction
       The direction you must follow the great circle (also known as b

If I try again as user 'nobody', it doesn't.

My configuration is at
http://jidanni.org/comp/configuration/

emacs24:
  Version table:
 *** 24.5+1-5+b1 500
        500 http://free.nchc.org.tw/debian unstable/main i386 Packages

I notice for M-x compile I often need to put 'sleep 1' at the bottom of
makefile entries, else the results get cut off too.

So what hook do I add sleep 1 to for Man?

Or for all emacs background processes, which seem to have only been
tested on snappy machines where the results arrive within the expected
time or something.

Message #12 received at 22283 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
Cc: 22283 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 22282 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22283: long man pages cut off
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2016 13:01:29 +1100

積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org> writes:

> (man "Math::Trig") consistently gets cut off at
>
>    great_circle_direction
>        The direction you must follow the great circle (also known as b

I'm unable to reproduce this on the current trunk.  Is this starting
with "emacs -Q"?

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no

Message #15 received at 22283 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 22283 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22283: long man pages cut off
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2016 10:35:40 +0800

>>>>> "LI" == Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

LI> I'm unable to reproduce this on the current trunk.  Is this starting
LI> with "emacs -Q"?

No. Else I could reproduce it as user nobody.

You need to load the configuration I mentioned.

Message #18 received at 22283 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
Cc: 22283 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22283: long man pages cut off
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2016 14:06:46 +1100

積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org> writes:

>>>>>> "LI" == Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:
>
> LI> I'm unable to reproduce this on the current trunk.  Is this starting
> LI> with "emacs -Q"?
>
> No. Else I could reproduce it as user nobody.
>
> You need to load the configuration I mentioned.

Can you determine what parts of the configuration makes this bug appear?
If not, I don't think there's going to be any progress on this bug report.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no

Message #25 received at 22283-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: 22283-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22283: long man pages cut off
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2016 15:21:23 -0500

Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> Can you determine what parts of the configuration makes this bug appear?
> If not, I don't think there's going to be any progress on this bug report.

No response in months, closing.

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