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From: Jens-Ulrik Holger Petersen <petersen@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
Date: 19 Sep 1997 18:14:23 +0900
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>>>>> "Jens-Ulrik" == Jens-Ulrik Holger Petersen <petersen@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp> writes:

>>>>> "RT" == Remek Trzaska <remek@postoffice.npac.syr.edu> writes:
    RT> I like having different things in different frames, for example man
    RT> pages.  special-display-regexps seems perfect to achieve it.  Recently
    RT> man.el has been updated by Karl, and he removed `man ' prefix from man
    RT> buffers names, so regexps became useless in this case.  

    RT> Well, I've prepared a patch[1] that lets a user decide about having
    RT> this prefix.

    RT> Remek

    RT> Footnotes: 
    RT> [1]  Have mercy, that's my first one! ;-)

    Jens-Ulrik> Sorry, to be merciless.  But I am not entirely happy
    Jens-Ulrik> about this.  I think the old behaviour should be
    Jens-Ulrik> returned.  [Then again I use "iswitchb.el" which makes
    Jens-Ulrik> switching to old-style named man buffers a synch
    Jens-Ulrik> (easy).]

I just took a look over the current state of "man.el".
Sorry, I think my response above was wrong.

I vote for the patch now.  It makes good sense.

    Jens-Ulrik> There are lots of shell script that have man pages.
    Jens-Ulrik> Currently if you have such a shell script in a buffer,
    Jens-Ulrik> and you try to `man' its man page, the buffer with the
    Jens-Ulrik> shell script is put into Man mode!!

    Jens-Ulrik> Ok, I'm sure that bug could be fixed, but it
    Jens-Ulrik> illustrates the current problem well.  Having man
    Jens-Ulrik> buffers just named by the command-name is not a good
    Jens-Ulrik> idea!

    Jens-Ulrik> [thought Karl said he was going to change this back
    Jens-Ulrik> anyway, or is that just my convenient memory.]

I see, Karl just did the star part, not the prefix.

I suggest `Manual-buffers-have-prefix' defaults to t.

I have fix for the above bug, which I will post on Monday.
-- 
Jens
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