On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 9:16 AM, Alastair Hughes
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Package: busybox
> Version: v1.25.1
> Severity: wishlist
>
> The attached patch lets the user configure the command used to format man
> pages by busybox's man.
> I'm using heirloom-doctools instead of groff in a toy distro, which doesn't
> provide gtbl (just tbl) and doesn't work with -Tascii (I use -Tutf8 instead),
> so I am using this to let me view man pages.
> I think that it would also be useful if busybox was built without seamless
> decompression - the command could pipe the man page through gunzip before
> sending it on.
>
> I've tested this by building with the defaults, with a changed command, and
> without man.
The "big" man tool uses /etc/man_db.conf to override these.
I committed a change which allows that to work:
man: allow nroff and tbl commands be overridden; unmangle writing to files
Parse this in config files:
DEFINE col ...
DEFINE tbl ...
DEFINE nroff ...
Add width options to nroff command line.
Use "tbl", not "gtbl", as default tbl command.
Export GROFF_NO_SGR=1 and use "col -b -p -x" instead of pager when
writing to file.
Please try current git, try making it work for you with suitable
/etc/man_db.conf,
let me know if it's not sufficient.
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