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

From: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Date: Mar 14, 2008, 05:26 UTC
Message-ID: <200803140626.16075.chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
In-Reply-To: <200803140100.m2E105o5004664@localhost.localdomain>

Le vendredi 14 mars 2008, Xavier Maillard a écrit :

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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.

Thank you Xavier for this message.

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>    > 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 !

I just sent a patch to do that in "git-web--browse.sh" and I will soon work on the same stuff for man viewing.

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>    > 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 :)

As my patch is now on next and as I am not sure to understand exactly what you want, I can only suggest to send a patch if you really care.

Thanks, Christian.