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bug#61552: Feature request: Add variable Man-prefer-synchronous-call
From: |
Sebastian Tennant |
Subject: |
bug#61552: Feature request: Add variable Man-prefer-synchronous-call |
Date: |
Tue, 21 Feb 2023 12:16:00 +0000 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.2.50 (gnu/linux) |
Hello Stefan,
Quoth Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
on Tue, 21 Feb 2023 01:53:18 -0800:
> […]
> Thanks. Could you explain the use case for this?
A function I've written (called #’man-spot) allows me to make notes in
commentary which look like this:
;;; (man-spot "openssl" "^ +s_client")
for example.
By evaluating this form, I'm able to jump to the specific point in the
openssl manpage which describes the s_client command.
The second argument to #'man-spot is a regular expression which is
passed to #'re-search-backward. This only works if #'manual-entry has
finished putting the manpage into a buffer. Hence the preference for
a synchronous call to #'Man-getpage-in-background.