Re: [PATCH] help: implement multi-valued "man.viewer" config option

Le vendredi 14 mars 2008, Xavier Maillard a écrit :

   > 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 times
   already.

Glad to read that !

I just sent a patch to do that in "git-web--browse.sh" and I will soon work 
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 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 :)

As my patch is now on next and as I am not sure to understand exactly what 
you want, I can only suggest to send a patch if you really care.

Thanks,
Christian.