GNU bug report logs - #40888
M-x man: don't redraw good pages when not finding bad pages

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>

Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 00:15:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: wontfix

Found in versions 28.0.50, 26.3

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #28 received at 40888 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Cc: Tomas Nordin <tomasn <at> posteo.net>, 40888 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
Subject: Re: bug#40888: M-x man: don't redraw good pages when not finding
 bad pages
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2020 13:28:19 +0200
Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se> writes:

>> >>>>> "TN" == Tomas Nordin <tomasn <at> posteo.net> writes:
>> TN> under the super heading * Lisp Changes in Emacs 26.1.
>> Well all I know is with 26.3,
>> emacs or emacs -nw,
>> I still see a blink (the whole cat man page redrawn) when I do M-x man dog.
>
> I can reproduce this here.

Me too...  but I don't think there's a redrawing of the cat page,
really.

What seems to be happening is that M-x man RET dog RET pops up a "*Man
dog*" buffer in a window, and then starts working in the background.

And then it can't find the dog man page, and then kills the buffer (and
window).

This makes everything redisplay, which is the blink we're seeing.

I'm not sure whether anything can be done about this -- it's an artefact
of working asynchronously, and then restoring window configurations.

Anybody got any ideas?

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