bug#12098: How to trap errors in man?

[Stefan Kangas]

Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org> writes:

>> What if you are running this remotely using TRAMP?  What if you're on a
>> laggy network with an NFS mounted filesystem?  What if your disk is
>> failing and this command takes several seconds to complete?  etc.
>
> No different from any other command that interacts with the disc and is
> normally run synchronously.

Yes, so your entire Emacs session will block.  In other words, less than
satisfactory.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas