Subject: Re: bug#40888: M-x man: don't redraw good pages when not finding bad pages

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2020 19:41:32 +0200

積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <[email-masked]> writes:

> Do:
> 2. Get the stuff to put into it.
> 1. Make a buffer
> 3. Put that stuff into it.
>
> That way if (2) fails, it can quit before (1) happens, instead of before
> (3) happens.

No, when doing async stuff that opens buffers, Emacs tries to open the
buffer first before doing anything -- because popping up a buffer
a random amount of time later can be annoying and steal keyboard focus
and stuff.

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