"Neal A. Crocker" wrote:
>
> I took siag-3.5.1-1 out for a very brief spin and it seems to work
> well except for one thing. When I tried to get help from within
> siag, I got empty Pathetic Writer windows.
Yes, there is something I need to do about this, but I don't yet quite
know what. Maybe discussing this with you might help.
Here is how Siag's help works: The help files are in html format, and it
depends for its display on a web browser. By default it looks for
netscape (which doesn't exist as far as the command line is concerned)
and lynx. Since I have lynx installed, it uses lynx on my system. You
can set the environment variable SIAGHELP to point to another web
browser. I just tried dillo ("setenv SIAGHELP dillo"), and it works very well.
If it doesn't find netscape or lynx nor anything usable in SIAGHELP, it
falls back on pw. Pw is not really a web browser (doesn't follow links),
but at least it should display basic html files correctly. Why it
doesn't show anything for the help files, I don't know. Some bug
somewhere. Try
pw /sw/share/doc/siag/common/siaghelp.html
It will show the help-on-help file (very ugly, but readable).
So what you can do right now is:
- either install lynx. Then siag will use it automatically.
- or install dillo and "setenv SIAGHELP dillo".
What I can do is
1. either make siag depend on lynx
2. or make it depend on 'lynx | dillo' and patch the /sw/bin/siaghelp
script so that it detects dillo when it is installed.
3. or make siaghelp detect dillo when it is installed and write
something about needing either lynx or dillo in the DescUsage section of
the info file
4. or just write something about the SIAGHELP variable in the DescUsage
section of the info file. There are probably other usable browsers out
there besides lynx and dillo. Mozilla doesn't seem to work, though.
Any thought about what to choose?
--
Martin
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