From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christian Couder Subject: Re: [PATCH] help: implement multi-valued "man.viewer" config option Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 06:26:15 +0100 Message-ID: <200803140626.16075.chriscool@tuxfamily.org> References: <20080311085113.176df1af.chriscool@tuxfamily.org> <200803120823.38100.chriscool@tuxfamily.org> <200803140100.m2E105o5004664@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: junkio@cox.net, pascal@obry.net, nanako3@bluebottle.com, git@vger.kernel.org To: Xavier Maillard X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Mar 14 06:21:47 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 1Ja2MT-0006Qx-9g for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 06:21:45 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756984AbYCNFUg convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Mar 2008 01:20:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756928AbYCNFUg (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Mar 2008 01:20:36 -0400 Received: from smtp1-g19.free.fr ([212.27.42.27]:38061 "EHLO smtp1-g19.free.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756897AbYCNFUf convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Mar 2008 01:20:35 -0400 Received: from smtp1-g19.free.fr (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp1-g19.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 757E71AB2CB; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 06:20:34 +0100 (CET) Received: from bureau.boubyland (gre92-7-82-243-130-161.fbx.proxad.net [82.243.130.161]) by smtp1-g19.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 558971AB2B7; Fri, 14 Mar 2008 06:20:34 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 In-Reply-To: <200803140100.m2E105o5004664@localhost.localdomain> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Le vendredi 14 mars 2008, Xavier Maillard a =E9crit : > > 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. Thank you Xavier for this 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 t= imes > already. > > Glad to read that ! I just sent a patch to do that in "git-web--browse.sh" and I will soon = work=20 on the same stuff for man viewing. > > 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 al= l > > 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 :) As my patch is now on next and as I am not sure to understand exactly w= hat=20 you want, I can only suggest to send a patch if you really care. Thanks, Christian.