Hello Angel,
The 3.x branch have an option like that, but I never reimplemented it on
5.x, just because overriding DISPLAY is enough and nobody cared. If you
think it's really important, I will reconsider it.
Thank you.
Back to the man page binary name inconsistency, I think the proper thing is
to add an inline sed oneliner to replace 'mp-5' with 'mped' inside mped.1
in the Debian package build or install scripts and everything would be
fine.
Yes, a sed onliner should do it.
Finally, do you think there is a problem with your build script that
makes it check for one package and then, if it finds it, it uses a
completely different package?
I'm not sure to understand you fully here. The config.sh script just
searches for ncursesw and uses ncursesw (no mention about plain ncurses,
other than including curses.h), the problem was on Debian dependencies.
Remember I have no control on that.
When I was talking with Barry deFreese about it, he said that isn't
wasn't enough to have ncursesw in the build dependencies, he also had to
add ncurses for it to work. He thought that the build was checking for
the existence of the curses.h from the ncurses package, and then, if it
found it, using the curses.h from the ncursesw package. Someone else in
IRC commented "hmm ideally you should use the curses.h header from the
ncursesw dir to match the library used" and Barry replied "Aye, that's
an upstream bug". I hope that makes sense.
As I'm writing this email, I would like to take this opportunity to ask
whether MP supports highlighting multiple language syntaxes in one
file. For example, could it highlight JavaScript syntax inside an HTML
document where the tags were also correctly highlighted? There could
also be CSS and PHP in the same file. As a work around, or as an extra
feature, you could have an option in the menus for selecting which
highlighting to use on the current file.
Thanks again for your help getting this package to as high a standard as
possible.
Best regards,
Edwin
