; Fix last change

* doc/emacs/programs.texi (Man Page): Improve wording.

* lisp/man.el (Man-prefer-synchronous-call): Fix quoting and
spelling.  (Bug#61552)

diff --git a/doc/emacs/programs.texi b/doc/emacs/programs.texi
index c6c67047c43ae3916004bb0d5d86603defa01e77..62df88a731ef200807ac19c7b719eed84f33e546 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/emacs/programs.texi
+++ b/doc/emacs/programs.texi
@@ -1389,9 +1389,9 @@ line shows how many manual pages are available.
 
 @vindex Man-prefer-synchronous-call
   By default, @kbd{M-x man} calls the @code{man} program
-asynchronously.  If you would prefer it if @kbd{M-x man} called the
-@code{man} program synchronously, you may set variable
-@code{Man-prefer-synchronous-calls} to a non-@code{nil} value.
+asynchronously.  You can force the invocation to be synchronous by
+customizing @code{Man-prefer-synchronous-calls} to a non-@code{nil}
+value.
 
 @findex woman
 @cindex manual pages, on MS-DOS/MS-Windows

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 744eab415589f9876c36fc91bcf33754480570c5..116b60d8b112cc41d2b74042f0aacaf4c8c23b4f 100644 (file)
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ bound to 'C-c C-d' in 'go-ts-mode'.
 +++
 *** New user option 'Man-prefer-synchronous-call'.
 When this is non-nil, call the 'man' program synchronously rather than
-asynchronously, which is the default behaviour.
+asynchronously (which is the default behavior).
 
 \f
 * New Modes and Packages in Emacs 30.1

diff --git a/lisp/man.el b/lisp/man.el
index 5e5c10aac36c27ed60e43b85a6bd7f6790f15bf6..3ab9aa5b4dd0e7ccd64e9cd8ce955c3b84871c51 100644 (file)
--- a/lisp/man.el
+++ b/lisp/man.el
@@ -98,9 +98,9 @@
   :group 'help)
 
 (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 behaviour)."
+  "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
   :group 'man
   :version 30.1)