Re: [Monotone-devel] Please review nvm.man-page

[Stephen Leake]

Thomas Moschny <address@hidden> writes:

> Stephen Leake <address@hidden>:
>> This almost works (from bash under Emacs), but it loses all the
>> headers:
>> 
>> function get_man_page_formatter_command()
>>    local term_width = guess_terminal_width() - 2
>>    local path = "c:/bin"
>>    -- On MinGW, 'popen' runs 'cmd.exe' with the inherited path; run
>> Cygwin bash from there return string.format("bash -c nroff -man
>> -rLL=%dn | less -R", term_width) end
>
> Problem is that you need to pass exactly one argument to the -c option,
> so quoting is to be used:
>
> return string.format(
>   "bash -c 'nroff -man -rLL=%dn' | less -R", term_width)
>
> works, at least under Linux. Otherwise, the -man and -r options are
> consumed by bash, not nroff.

Yes, that works; same result as running 'man' under Emacs.

Should we put a note about this in the manual, or an example monotonerc
in contrib?

> But then, me wonders where 'path' is used?

Sorry, that was left over from an earlier experiment; it should be
deleted.

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-- Stephe