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Manual Page

#99929
From: Arthur Gleckler
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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Subject: Manual Page
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