From: Xavier Maillard Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 01:00:05 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] help: implement multi-valued "man.viewer" config option Message-ID: <200803140100.m2E105o5004664@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <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 -- http://www.gnu.org http://www.april.org http://www.lolica.org