From: Xavier Maillard <xma@gnu.org>
To: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Cc: junkio@cox.net, pascal@obry.net, nanako3@bluebottle.com,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] help: implement multi-valued "man.viewer" config option
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 02:00:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200803140100.m2E105o5004664@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200803120823.38100.chriscool@tuxfamily.org> (message from Christian Couder on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:23:37 +0100)
> 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
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-14 1:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-11 7:51 [PATCH] help: implement multi-valued "man.viewer" config option Christian Couder
2008-03-12 1:00 ` Xavier Maillard
2008-03-12 7:23 ` Christian Couder
2008-03-14 1:00 ` Xavier Maillard [this message]
2008-03-14 5:26 ` Christian Couder
2008-03-15 13:00 ` Xavier Maillard
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