Re: [PATCH] help: implement multi-valued "man.viewer" config option
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- Xavier Maillard <xma@gnu.org>
- Date
- Mar 14, 2008, 01:00 UTC
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- <200803140100.m2E105o5004664@localhost.localdomain>
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- <200803120823.38100.chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
> 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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