Re: _man only uses $manpath

[Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Oliver Kiddle wrote:

> Sven Wischnowsky wrote:
> > Andrej Borsenkow wrote:
> > > On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Adam Spiers wrote:
> > > > Sounds like we need some way of intelligently figuring out a solution
> > > > for both scenarios.  Does `man -w' return an error of some sort on
> > > > your system which we could test for?
> > > Well, exit code != 0. I have no idea, how reliable it is (different
> > > versions etc)
> > 
> > Same here for Digital Unix. Maybe we should test $OSTYPE?
> 
> The only man I can find which does support -w or --path is the GNU one.
> The exit code of != 0 seems fine on the systems I've looked at provided
> stderr is redirected.
> 
> What are you trying to achieve with man -w - find a default manpath to
> use if $manpath is unset? As far as I can tell man -w only gives you the
> location of a specific man page which isn't entirely useful for finding
> a default manpath as the default can (and often will) contain more than
> one directory. The only way I know of finding the default manpath is by
> running the man binary through strings. Maybe we could use a for loop to
> guess possible man directories and check them.

Yes, a la `_x_color'.

Bye
 Sven


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