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Re: [PATCH] teach browse-url about man pages
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Mark Oteiza |
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Re: [PATCH] teach browse-url about man pages |
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Sun, 16 Oct 2016 10:59:04 -0400 |
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Mutt/1.7+23 (87911ba95dae) (2016-08-17) |
On 15/10/16 at 09:01am, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Mark Oteiza <address@hidden>
> > Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2016 21:14:21 -0400
> >
> > Not sure about a couple things:
> >
> > - whether something like browse-url-man-viewer should be added. Are
> > there some other commonly used man page reader? I don't know.
>
> You mean, except man.el and woman.el? I think these two should be
> enough. (Actually, woman.el doesn't support many modern man pages, so
> it's only a distant second.)
>
> If you mean something else, please tell.
I meant instead of man(1). I'm aware of xorg-xman, but that looks quite
crusty. I'm not going to worry about it--the other variable can be
added later, if ever needed.