From: Karl Heuer <kwzh@gnu.org>
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 18:53:13 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (Man-getpage-in-background): Bind inhibit-eol-conversion
X-Git-Tag: emacs-20.3~1641
X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0dfb1b759ef5fcd0d14987dc9e9d6ac60c1f1de3;p=emacs.git

(Man-getpage-in-background): Bind inhibit-eol-conversion
to t before calling start-process or call-process.
---

diff --git a/lisp/man.el b/lisp/man.el
index 2c8acac2c82..9bcdd8f8f0e 100644
--- a/lisp/man.el
+++ b/lisp/man.el
@@ -583,6 +583,7 @@ If a buffer already exists for this man page, it will display immediately."
 	(setq Man-original-frame (selected-frame))
 	(setq Man-arguments man-args))
       (let ((process-environment (copy-sequence process-environment))
+	    (inhibit-eol-conversion t)	; so Awk script gets \n intact
 	    ;; Avoid possible error by using a directory that always exists.
 	    (default-directory "/"))
 	;; Prevent any attempt to use display terminal fanciness.