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bug#24917: 24.5; M-x manual-entry caching
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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bug#24917: 24.5; M-x manual-entry caching |
Date: |
Sat, 27 Jul 2019 14:30:11 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Ed Avis <eda@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".
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