Re: [PATCH 1/2] help: add "man.viewer" config var to use "woman" or "konqueror"

   Looking at this exchange really makes me suspect that these
   things should not be in C.  Every time Emacs updates we need
   recompilation?  Yuck.

In fact, I am pretty confident that emacsclient has always printed its version onto stdout so I do not think we need to recompile every week :)

   What was the reason we gave up calling out to a single generic
   scripted wrapper that the users can just munge to suit their
   tastes?

Good question. Though I find chriscool's implementation nicely thought. With the modifications I made, this works as expected with either emacs22 and emacs23 (aka CVS). What's more, how a user could have tested if emacsclient was provided in the right version using a generic scripted wrapper ?

I guess, chriscool should provide a more consistent emacsclient wrapper with support for GNU Emacs version >= 21. This won't be an enormous amount of work to do it (I can help him if he wants to but I do not want to steal the paternity of his idea).

	Xavier