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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.

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