Re: master 7e387c9: * lisp/man.el (Man-width-max): New defcustom (bug#32536, bug#9385)

[martin rudalics]

>>   > I was thinking about the
>>   > default face being remapped, which can be easily tested.
>>
>> For some value of "easily".
>
> ??? face-remapping-alist is a simple alist, and there should be no
> difficulty in telling whether 'default' appears in it.  Or what am I
> missing?

It will be up to Juri to decide whether it can be done easily.  And it
probably can be done easily if we ignore the filter mechanism you
consider harmful (for the default face) anyway.  Personally, I'm not
convinced yet.

> Isn't default-font-width provide the information necessary for man.el
> to do this calculation more accurately?

For a window returned by 'get-buffer-window'?  If you know the
necessary precautions, yes.  I didn't until a couple of days ago.  And
Štěpán apparently didn't know them either.

martin