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Ticket #5203: fix man viewing with mandoc in user menu - #5203
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| m View manual page | ||
| MAN=%{Enter manual name} | ||
| %view{ascii,nroff} MANROFFOPT='@MAN_FLAGS@' MAN_KEEP_FORMATTING=1 man -P cat "$MAN" | ||
| %view{ascii,nroff} MANROFFOPT='@MAN_FLAGS@' MAN_KEEP_FORMATTING=1 MANPAGER=cat man "$MAN" |
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| %view{ascii,nroff} MANROFFOPT='@MAN_FLAGS@' MAN_KEEP_FORMATTING=1 MANPAGER=cat man "$MAN" | |
| %view{ascii,nroff} MANROFFOPT='@MAN_FLAGS@' MAN_KEEP_FORMATTING=1 PAGER=cat man "$MAN" |
It seems that PAGER is universally supported, including across Solaris, AIX and HP-UX, and MANPAGER is only supported on Linux/BSD. I don't think in this context it's absolutely necessary to use MANPAGER specifically; does PAGER work for you?
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I think this will work. The documentation simply stated that MANPAGER should be used as a priority. If PAGER is more versatile, I’ll make the change.
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Alright, please do it, and I'll merge. Thanks!
Many implementations of `man` lack the `-P` option. For example, `mandoc`, as well as those found on Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, and certain other systems. Therefore, this option is replaced by the universal environment variable PAGER. Signed-off-by: Max Logaev <logaevmax@gmail.com>
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A common environment variable
PAGERhas been added for nonman-dbsystems.manimplementation other thanman-db(e.g.,mandoc) is installed on the system, an error occurs when opening a man page, becausemandocdoes not support the-Poption.See Debian manpages:
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PAGERoption is used instead ofMANPAGERfor better compatibility with Solaris, AIX and HP-UX systems.Checklist
git commit --amend -smake indent && make check)