Re: [PATCH 1/3] git-help: add -i|--info option to display info page.

[Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net>]

Christian Couder a écrit :
> So if someone has information about how "woman" or other web or man or info 

Ok about woman. Woman is an Emacs mode to display man pages. To send man
page to display in Emacs from the command line one can use emacsclient
for example. I'm already doing this for standard man pages with a bash
function. This function does something like this:

   $ emacsclient -e '(woman "git")'

-e is for eval and the argument is the Emacs Lisp string to evaluate.

Let me know if you need more information about woman.

I think it would be nice to be able to define a Git alias. In the string
some %x could be replaced by the man page requested. We could define
multiple replacements:

   %n  -  the man entry (git-commit)
   %s  -  the simple name of the man page (git-commit.1)
   %f  -  the full pathname of the man page (/usr/man/man1/git-commit.1)
   %i  -  the full pathname of the info page

With this I think it should be possible to define and configure any
external tool to display the man page.

This would be more versatile and could be used to display info or man
using whatever tool.

Pascal.

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