Subject: bug#61552: closed (Re: bug#61552: Feature request: Add variable Man-prefer-synchronous-call)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2023 11:31:03 +0000

Your bug report

#61552: Feature request: Add variable Man-prefer-synchronous-call

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#61552: Feature request: Add variable Man-prefer-synchronous-call
From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
To: Sebastian Tennant <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2023 13:30:46 +0200
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

> From: Sebastian Tennant <[email-masked]>
> Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2023 17:16:24 +0000
> 
> Quoth Robert Pluim <[email-masked]>
> on Tue, 21 Feb 2023 15:47:11 +0100:
> > […]
> > Everything in Emacs should be in the manual :-)
> 
> Indeed.
> 
> > […]
> > Sorry, I meant "a complete sentence, and only taking up one screen
> > line, not exceeding `emacs-lisp-docstring-fill-column'", ie
> >
> >     Whether to call the Un*x 'man' command synchronously.
> >     When this is non-nil call 'man' synchronously instead of the default
> >     asynchronous behaviour.
> >
> > since `apropos' displays only the first line
> 
> Understood.  Hopefully this updated patch (against master) is starting
> to look acceptable:

Thanks, installed on the master branch, and closing the bug.

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the future, would you like to start the legal paperwork of assigning
the copyright for your changes to the FSF?  If yes, I will send you
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Subject: Feature request: Add variable Man-prefer-synchronous-call
From: Sebastian Tennant <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2023 16:12:51 +0000
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Patch against master (on branch master-sebyte, rebased moments ago):

 https://gitweb.sebyte.me/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi/emacs/commitdiff/280a56c96d4530273c308addda016d889082d058

Patch against emacs-28 (on branch emacs-28-sebyte):

 https://gitweb.sebyte.me/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi/emacs/commitdiff/a08053f12303045905907b992cc78b84692cf26a