Re: [PATCH 1/3] git-help: add -i|--info option to display info page.

Christian Couder a écrit :

Ok about woman. Woman is an Emacs mode to display man pages. To send man page to display in Emacs from the command line one can use emacsclient for example. I'm already doing this for standard man pages with a bash function. This function does something like this:

   $ emacsclient -e '(woman "git")'

-e is for eval and the argument is the Emacs Lisp string to evaluate.

Let me know if you need more information about woman.

I think it would be nice to be able to define a Git alias. In the string some %x could be replaced by the man page requested. We could define multiple replacements:

   %n  -  the man entry (git-commit)
   %s  -  the simple name of the man page (git-commit.1)
   %f  -  the full pathname of the man page (/usr/man/man1/git-commit.1)
   %i  -  the full pathname of the info page

With this I think it should be possible to define and configure any external tool to display the man page.

This would be more versatile and could be used to display info or man using whatever tool.

Pascal.