bug#12098: How to trap errors in man?

[Stefan Kangas]

Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org> writes:

> As I said earlier in the thread, this seems only to add complexity (for
> example making it hard to reuse `man` for other things, the reason I filed
> this issue originally) for no useful gain on modern machines (the delay
> when formatting even the longest man page is short).

What if you are running this remotely using TRAMP?  What if you're on a
laggy network with an NFS mounted filesystem?  What if your disk is
failing and this command takes several seconds to complete?  etc.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas