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Article #99929Manual Page
From: Arthur Gleckler
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 1990 22:51
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 1990 22:51
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Here is a one-line change suggestion that would make M-x manual-entry MUCH nicer: The line in the definition of manual-entry which reads (with-output-to-temp-buffer "*Manual Entry*" could be changed to (with-output-to-temp-buffer (concat "*" topic " Manual Entry*") Here's the reason: When you use Man under Emacs more than once, each manual page overwrites the previous ones. Often, it's nice to see more than one manual page at a time, but to do that requires renaming the *Manual Entry* buffer each time before running Man again. My change makes this automatic. The buffer for the manual page on the mv command is named "*mv Manual Entry*", for example. Of course, it would be completely in the Emacs tradition to make a flag that determines whether Emacs makes a new buffer each time or reuses the old one. Also, with-output-to-temporary-buffer may not be appropriate in this case. In the final analysis, though, any change along these lines will be trivial but result in Man being nicer. Thanks. Emacs is God, and Stallman is its prophet.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fb2f1,f226b7cec9f76426,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfb2f1,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1990-04-05 23:03:41 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!bu.edu!snorkelwacker!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ZURICH.AI.MIT.EDU!arthur From: arthur@ZURICH.AI.MIT.EDU (Arthur Gleckler) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Subject: Manual Page Message-ID: <9004052251.AA19736@zurich.ai.mit.edu> Date: 5 Apr 90 22:51:08 GMT Sender: daemon@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: arthur@zurich.ai.mit.edu Distribution: gnu Organization: GNUs Not Usenet Lines: 28 Posted: Thu Apr 5 23:51:08 1990