From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:12:48 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] builtin-help: fallback to GIT_MAN_VIEWER before man
Message-ID: <7vod3b4x6n.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <877i9zsw6c.fsf@elegiac.orebokech.com>

Romain Francoise <romain@orebokech.com> writes:

> In some situations it is useful to be able to switch viewers via the
> environment, e.g. in Emacs shell buffers.  So check the GIT_MAN_VIEWER
> environment variable and try it before falling back to "man".
>
> Signed-off-by: Romain Francoise <romain@orebokech.com>
> ---
>
> The motivation for this is that I want the viewer to be "woman" in
> Emacs shell buffers and "man" otherwise, and having an environment
> variable (like PAGER or EDITOR) is cleaner than using a
> man.viewer.cmd wrapper to do the redirection.

Obviously I am biased, as I am among the people who have PAGER=cat and
EDITOR=emacsclient, and 70% of whose command invocation is from within the
"M-x compile", but I like this.