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23.1.50; buffer-menu truncated fields

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From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
Cc: 5054 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#5054: Man truncated
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 00:44:35 +0300

>>> And what to do with the created frame?  To leave it displaying
>>> an empty buffer?
>>
>> The window (which probably should be dedicated initially to avoid that
>> some other action steals it before formatting is complete) could first
>> display some text about the formatting process in progress
>
> My patch already inserts a line "Invoking manual-program man-args
> in the background" in the displayed buffer until formatting is complete.
>
>> and a more detailed text when formatting fails telling the user what
>> the potential reasons of the failure were and how to get rid of the
>> window or frame (and implicitly the temporary buffer).
>
> I think you are right.  Exactly like e.g. `grep' displays the output
> *grep* buffer with the text "Grep finished with no matches found",
> so when `man' can't find a manpage, it should display a similar
> error message in the man output buffer.

Maybe a new window parameter `quit-restore-window' could take care
about deleting the created window/frame when the man's formatting fails.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/

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