severity 322432 normal retitle 322432 please document ~/.urlview better thanks
* Keith Hellman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [2005-08-11 12:37 -0600]:
> OK, I did this on a fresh etch install (which I just happened to have
> recently completed). Here are the results:
>
> - was able to replicate your success if I didn't use a ~/.urlview;
> things worked perfectly.
> - tried with my original ~/.urlview file (sent in the latest tarball);
> REPRODUCED BOTH multiple URL entries as well as the trailing newline
> defect that apparently I alone am experiencing
> - copied the /etc/urlview/system.urlview to ~/.urlview; things worked
> perfectly
> - changed the COMMAND entry of the file to point to my own handler,
> exactly as it does in my original .urlview; things work perfectly
> - tested this "new" ~/.urlview on a second machine and things worked
> perfectly.
> My impression is that there is some munged up logic while processing a
> user's .urlview, since the your able to see at least the symptom of
> multiple URLs listed.
Things seems to be simpler than we think.
urlview reads ~/.urlview OR /etc/urlview/system.urlview.
Try for instance to only specify REGEXP in your user-defined conffile
and you'll notice that urlview will fail to execute url_handler.sh, because
it cannot find it in the current directory.
The first .urlview you sent me was defining only COMMAND. That's why as
soon as you've copied the default system.urlview to ~/.urlview things
worked as expected.
> Thanks for all your help,
Thank you for your time, and sorry if on the first message I didn't
understand what you were saying. :)
With this mail I'm downgrading the severity and retitling the bug,
because I think that simply stating clearly that it's mandatory to
define both COMMAND and REGEXP in ~/.urlview is enough.
More precisely, the manpage already states it. You may object that it's
not clear at all. Right. :)
quoting urlview(1):
urlview attempts to read ~/.urlview upon startup. If this file doesn’t
exist, it will try to read a system wide file in
/etc/urlview/system.urlview
*If this file doesn't exist*, it will try to read...
Any suggestion to improve the man page is very welcome.
ciao,
ema
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