[8651] in Athena Bugs
rt 7.3P: emacs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Calvin Clark)
Thu Nov 21 22:00:34 1991
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 91 22:00:40 -0500
From: Calvin Clark <ckclark@Athena.MIT.EDU>
To: yandros@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU
Reply-To: ckclark@mit.edu
>>>>> On Thu, 21 Nov 91 17:13:00 -0500, yandros@Athena.MIT.EDU said:
yandros> Use Raul Acevedo's man.el package for emacs.
yandros> (~acevedo/Emacs/man.el) I have succesfully used this
yandros> package several times on this particular machine. I
yandros> did M-x man in a almost-newly-started emacs. It was
yandros> loaded, asked me for a manpage, and proceeded to 'clean
yandros> up' the manpage. It then informed me that it was done
yandros> cleaning the manpage, and proceeded to sit, doing
yandros> nothing apparent.
I'm not completely sure, but the crash you observed seems to be due to
an error an the process code which is sometimes triggered when a process
exits quickly or when something weird happens to it. Keep in mind that
Raul's man.el runs man ansynchonously; i.e., it uses start-process.
There are not that many elisp routines in the distribution which employ
this, so it may not be tested that well. There have been changes to a
few sections of the process code since the release emacs was built which
may or may not be solutions to this problem. I will try to repeat it
myself to find out more, but if I can't, there's not much I can do about
it.
-Calvin
