GNU bug report logs - #61552
Feature request: Add variable Man-prefer-synchronous-call

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Sebastian Tennant <sdt <at> sebyte.me>

Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2023 16:14:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Sebastian Tennant <sdt <at> sebyte.me>
Subject: bug#61552: closed (Re: bug#61552: Feature request: Add variable
 Man-prefer-synchronous-call)
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2023 11:31:03 +0000
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Your bug report

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

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

The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
If you require more details, please reply to 61552 <at> debbugs.gnu.org.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Sebastian Tennant <sdt <at> sebyte.me>
Cc: 61552-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#61552: Feature request: Add variable
 Man-prefer-synchronous-call
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2023 13:30:46 +0200
> From: Sebastian Tennant <sdt <at> sebyte.me>
> Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2023 17:16:24 +0000
> 
> Quoth Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
> 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.

Assuming that you want to be able to submit contributions to Emacs in
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
the form to fill to start the paperwork.

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From: Sebastian Tennant <sdt <at> sebyte.me>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Feature request: Add variable Man-prefer-synchronous-call
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2023 16:12:51 +0000
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




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