bug#42160: closed (Issue with Man-kill and background process.)

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> Issue with Man-kill and background process.
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> Thu, 2 Jul 2020 04:23:09 +0200
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> User-agent: 
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> NeoMutt/20180716
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> When using man with big manuals (like gcc). There is an error when
> trying to quit with k just after opening the manual.
> This seems to be related with the formating process that is running in
> the background.
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> To reproduce the issue:
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> emacs -Q
> M-x toggle-debug-on-error RET
> M-x man RET
> gcc RET
> k
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> And I get this error message:
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> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)
>  Man-bgproc-filter(#<process man> "nt, there is no need to use address spaces like 
> \"_...")
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> In GNU Emacs 28.0.50 (build 8, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, cairo version 
> 1.16.0, Xaw scroll bars)
> of 2020-06-30 built on ergus
> Repository revision: 519e64f98140b984e10a9567017c7e5c4a81ff89
> Repository branch: master
> System Description: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
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> Recent messages:
> For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
> Debug on Error enabled globally
> Invoking man gcc in the background
> next-line: End of buffer [4 times]
> Entering debugger...
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> Configured using:
> 'configure --prefix=/home/ergus/.local/ --with-mailutils'
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> Configured features:
> XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG CAIRO SOUND DBUS GSETTINGS GLIB NOTIFY INOTIFY
> LIBSELINUX GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE HARFBUZZ ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS
> LUCID X11 XDBE XIM MODULES THREADS PDUMPER GMP
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> Important settings:
>  value of $LANG: en_GB.UTF-8
>  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
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> Major mode: Debugger
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> Minor modes in effect:
>  tooltip-mode: t
>  global-eldoc-mode: t
>  electric-indent-mode: t
>  mouse-wheel-mode: t
>  tool-bar-mode: t
>  menu-bar-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
>  buffer-read-only: t
>  line-number-mode: t
>  transient-mark-mode: t
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> Load-path shadows:
> None found.
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> Features:
> (shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug message rmc puny dired dired-loaddefs
> rfc822 mml mml-sec password-cache epa derived epg epg-config gnus-util
> rmail rmail-loaddefs text-property-search time-date subr-x seq mm-decode
> mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader
> sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils
> cl-print debug backtrace help-mode find-func cl-seq imenu man easymenu
> cl-loaddefs cl-lib ansi-color cus-start cus-load term/tmux term/xterm
> xterm byte-opt gv bytecomp byte-compile cconv tooltip eldoc electric
> uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel term/x-win x-win
> term/common-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe
> tabulated-list replace newcomment text-mode elisp-mode lisp-mode
> prog-mode register page tab-bar menu-bar rfn-eshadow isearch timer
> select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core
> term/tty-colors frame minibuffer cl-generic cham georgian utf-8-lang
> misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms
> cp51932 hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian
> cyrillic chinese composite charscript charprop case-table epa-hook
> jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev obarray cl-preloaded nadvice loaddefs
> button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5
> base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable
> backquote threads dbusbind inotify dynamic-setting system-font-setting
> font-render-setting cairo x-toolkit x multi-tty make-network-process
> emacs)
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> Memory information:
> ((conses 16 62396 7811)
> (symbols 48 7549 1)
> (strings 32 19068 1764)
> (string-bytes 1 597034)
> (vectors 16 8450)
> (vector-slots 8 93078 6052)
> (floats 8 32 570)
> (intervals 56 197 5)
> (buffers 992 11))
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> Subject: 
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> Re: bug#42160: Issue with Man-kill and background process.
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> Date: 
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> Sat, 25 Jul 2020 10:16:38 +0300
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> > Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2020 10:46:07 +0300
> > From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> > Cc: 42160@debbugs.gnu.org
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> > Ping! Ping!
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> > Jimmy, could you please try this patch and see if it fixes your
> > problems?  If it does, I' d like to install it.
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> No comments, so I installed the changes, and I'm closing this bug
> report.
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