From: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Xavier Maillard <xma@gnu.org>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH AMENDED] help: add "man.viewer" config var to use "woman" or "konqueror"
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 08:38:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200803030838.48976.chriscool@tuxfamily.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vir079ong.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
Le samedi 1 mars 2008, Junio C Hamano a écrit :
> Xavier Maillard <xma@gnu.org> writes:
> > This patch makes it possible to view man pages using other tools
> > than the "man" program. It also implements support for emacs'
> > "woman" and konqueror with the man KIO slave to view man pages.
> >
> > Note that "emacsclient" is used with option "-e" to launch "woman"
> > on GNU emacs and this works only on versions >= 22.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
> > Amended-by: Xavier Maillard <xma@gnu.org>
>
> When you do something like this, please CC the original author
> to keep him in the loop.
Yes please.
> I really do not think doing it this way would scale. What if
> somebody prefers konq under X, and otherwise woman but wants to
> fall back to man?
>
> I do not think checking emacsclient version _every time_ is a
> good idea either, but for the sake of discussing an alternative
> approach, let's say that is fine.
>
> How about allowing multi-valued man.viewer like this:
>
> [man]
> viewer = woman
> viewer = konqueror
> viewer = man
I tried the above in my .git/config and I get:
$ git config man.viewer
woman
error: More than one value for the key man.viewer: konqueror
error: More than one value for the key man.viewer: man
so I guess this can work only in C.
> and have:
>
> static struct man_viewer {
> char *name;
> void (*exec)(const char *);
> } viewers[] = {
> { "woman", exec_woman },
> { "konqueror", exec_konqueror },
> { "man", exec_man },
> { NULL, },
> };
>
> Then you can iterate the man.viewer values, ask the viewer's
> exec() function to show the page (or return when it is not
> in an environment that it can be useful).
>
> show_man_page() would become:
>
> for (each viewer in user's config)
> viewer.exec(page); /* will return when unable */
> die("no man viewer handled the request");
Great idea, I will see if I can do that in some latter patches.
Thanks,
Christian.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-03 7:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-28 4:19 [PATCH 1/2] help: add "man.viewer" config var to use "woman" or "konqueror" Christian Couder
2008-02-29 2:00 ` Xavier Maillard
2008-02-29 7:14 ` Christian Couder
2008-02-29 7:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-03-01 1:00 ` Xavier Maillard
2008-03-03 7:20 ` Christian Couder
2008-03-01 1:00 ` [PATCH AMENDED] " Xavier Maillard
2008-03-01 2:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-03-03 7:38 ` Christian Couder [this message]
2008-03-03 7:42 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-03-03 19:07 ` Christian Couder
2008-02-29 2:00 ` [PATCH 1/2] " Xavier Maillard
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