GNU bug report logs - #24917
24.5; M-x manual-entry caching

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Ed Avis <eda <at> waniasset.com>

Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 07:56:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: wontfix

Found in version 24.5

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

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Report forwarded to bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org:
bug#24917; Package emacs. (Thu, 10 Nov 2016 07:56:01 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

Acknowledgement sent to Ed Avis <eda <at> waniasset.com>:
New bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org. (Thu, 10 Nov 2016 07:56:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

Message #5 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ed Avis <eda <at> waniasset.com>
To: <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: 24.5; M-x manual-entry caching
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 07:54:47 +0000
M-x manual-entry will generate a formatted manual page.  If you request
the same page later then it will switch to the existing buffer if open.
But the manual page might have changed in the meantime.  Could Emacs
check the timestamp on the file in /usr/share/man and rerun 'man' if so?



In GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.18.9)
 of 2016-04-11 on buildvm-25.phx2.fedoraproject.org
Configured using:
 `configure --build=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu
 --host=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu --program-prefix=
 --disable-dependency-tracking --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr
 --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --sysconfdir=/etc
 --datadir=/usr/share --includedir=/usr/include --libdir=/usr/lib64
 --libexecdir=/usr/libexec --localstatedir=/var
 --sharedstatedir=/var/lib --mandir=/usr/share/man
 --infodir=/usr/share/info --with-dbus --with-gif --with-jpeg --with-png
 --with-rsvg --with-tiff --with-xft --with-xpm --with-x-toolkit=gtk3
 --with-gpm=no build_alias=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu
 host_alias=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu 'CFLAGS=-DMAIL_USE_LOCKF -O2 -g
 -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4
 -grecord-gcc-switches -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-cc1
 -m64 -mtune=generic' LDFLAGS=-Wl,-z,relro'

Important settings:
  value of $LC_COLLATE: C
  value of $LC_CTYPE: en_GB.UTF-8
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: en_GB.UTF-8
  value of $LC_MONETARY: en_GB.UTF-8
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: en_GB.UTF-8
  value of $LC_TIME: en_GB.UTF-8
  value of $LANG: en_GB.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix

Major mode: Fundamental

Minor modes in effect:
  diff-auto-refine-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  shell-dirtrack-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent messages:
Mark set [3 times]
Auto-saving...done
Quit [2 times]
Saving file /home/eda/git_working/repos/linux/crontab.tradingsystems.wcl-linux-live...
Wrote /home/eda/git_working/repos/linux/crontab.tradingsystems.wcl-linux-live
Finding changes in /home/eda/git_working/repos/linux/crontab.tradingsystems.wcl-linux-live...done
Mark set
Press C-c C-c when you are done editing.
Enter a change comment.  Type C-c C-c when done
Checking in /home/eda/git_working/repos/linux/crontab.tradingsystems.wcl-linux-live...done
Quit [2 times]

Load-path shadows:
None found.

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Memory information:
((conses 16 353730 61548)
 (symbols 48 25869 0)
 (miscs 40 332 1363)
 (strings 32 39048 4445)
 (string-bytes 1 1170262)
 (vectors 16 18540)
 (vector-slots 8 482783 23785)
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 (heap 1024 40164 7845))




Information forwarded to bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org:
bug#24917; Package emacs. (Sat, 27 Jul 2019 12:31:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

Message #8 received at 24917 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Ed Avis <eda <at> waniasset.com>
Cc: 24917 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#24917: 24.5; M-x manual-entry caching
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2019 14:30:11 +0200
Ed Avis <eda <at> waniasset.com> writes:

> M-x manual-entry will generate a formatted manual page.  If you request
> the same page later then it will switch to the existing buffer if open.
> But the manual page might have changed in the meantime.  Could Emacs
> check the timestamp on the file in /usr/share/man and rerun 'man' if so?

I don't think there's any practical way that manual-entry can do that --
it just calls the "man" command, and it roots out where the manual file
actually is.  So Emacs doesn't know the location of the man file.

And it's a pretty obscure situation -- manual pages seldom change
(unless you're writing one, and then you can kill the man buffer
manually).

So I'm closing this as a "wontfix".

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no




Added tag(s) wontfix. Request was from Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> to control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Sat, 27 Jul 2019 12:31:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

bug closed, send any further explanations to 24917 <at> debbugs.gnu.org and Ed Avis <eda <at> waniasset.com> Request was from Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> to control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Sat, 27 Jul 2019 12:31:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

bug archived. Request was from Debbugs Internal Request <help-debbugs <at> gnu.org> to internal_control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Sun, 25 Aug 2019 11:24:06 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

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