Re: [PATCH] help: colorize man pages

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: May 20, 2021, 03:28 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqpmxmulqt.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <60a5d20a4e134_1f37320860@natae.notmuch>

Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:

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> How is enabling a configuration already present in `man` out of scope,
> but running an *ENTIRELY* different program--such as konqueror or
> woman--to view man pages is not?
>
>   git help --man git
>
> Doesn't even necessarily run man *already*.

As an end-user, I do not expect Git to run konqueror or woman with its own tweaks when it does so. And I do not see a reason why "man" should be any different.

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