Variable: Man-prefer-synchronous-call

Man-prefer-synchronous-call is a customizable variable defined in man.el.gz.

Value

nil

Documentation

Whether to call the Un*x "man" program synchronously.

When this is non-nil, call the "man" program synchronously
(rather than asynchronously, which is the default behavior).

This variable was added, or its default value changed, in Emacs 30.1.

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Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 30.1.

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/man.el.gz
(defcustom Man-prefer-synchronous-call nil
  "Whether to call the Un*x \"man\" program synchronously.
When this is non-nil, call the \"man\" program synchronously
(rather than asynchronously, which is the default behavior)."
  :type 'boolean
  :version "30.1")