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M-x man: don't redraw good pages when not finding bad pages

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
Cc: Tomas Nordin <tomasn <at> posteo.net>, 40888 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Subject: bug#40888: M-x man: don't redraw good pages when not finding bad pages
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2020 09:17:48 +0200

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

> Well, just like we don't purchase a house for our client before we check
> if he has money in the bank, even if it means waiting for business
> hours, it seems the program should first make sure what it intends to
> display even exists. "test -f" certainly won't slow things down that much.

What would you test to see whether the "man" command is going to be
successful or not?

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