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Re: [PATCH] help: implement multi-valued "man.viewer" config option

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XMXavier Maillard <xma@gnu.org>
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Mar 14, 2008, 01:00 UTC
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   > Ok, woma in not supported here and it is reported like this but
   > would it be possible to just throw an error on stdout and try
   > another viewer ? 
   Yes, with the following patch on top:
See my "tested-by" message.
   > We could even imagine something even more 
   > general like the possibility for the user to write his own man
   > viewer (a bash script for example) and set it as a candidate.
   I will do that in a latter patch, it has been suggested a lot of times 
   already.
Glad to read that !
   > By the way, I do not see any reason to put man as a candidate.
   > "man" should be the default when nothing is specified or when all
   > candidates have failed.
   It may be more explicit.

Well, I do not buy this argument and I am pretty sure that a simple note into the manual would suffice but, that's me :)

	Xavier
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