From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Xavier Maillard Subject: Re: [PATCH] help: implement multi-valued "man.viewer" config option Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 02:00:05 +0100 Organization: GNU's Not UNIX! Message-ID: <200803140100.m2E105o5004664@localhost.localdomain> References: <20080311085113.176df1af.chriscool@tuxfamily.org> <200803120100.m2C105YM010496@localhost.localdomain> <200803120823.38100.chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Reply-To: Xavier Maillard Cc: junkio@cox.net, pascal@obry.net, nanako3@bluebottle.com, git@vger.kernel.org To: Christian Couder X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Mar 14 02:36:42 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JZyqU-0001OA-W1 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 02:36:31 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753997AbYCNBfw (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:35:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753525AbYCNBfv (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:35:51 -0400 Received: from master.uucpssh.org ([193.218.105.66]:50805 "EHLO master.uucpssh.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752133AbYCNBfu (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:35:50 -0400 Received: by master.uucpssh.org (Postfix, from userid 10) id D5E2CD11F9; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 02:34:19 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost.localdomain (IDENT:1000@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.14.1/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m2E106H3004671; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 02:00:06 +0100 Received: (from xma@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.14.1/8.13.8/Submit) id m2E105o5004664; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 02:00:05 +0100 In-reply-to: <200803120823.38100.chriscool@tuxfamily.org> (message from Christian Couder on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:23:37 +0100) User-Agent: Rmail in GNU Emacs 23.0.60.2 on GNU/Linux Jabber-ID: xma01@jabber.fr X-uucpssh: Found to be clean X-uucpssh-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-4.39, required 4.6, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, AWL 0.01, BAYES_00 -2.60, SPF_HELO_PASS -0.00) X-uucpssh-From: xma@gnu.org Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: > 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 -- http://www.gnu.org http://www.april.org http://www.lolica.org