On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 02:06:27PM +0200, Axel Liljencrantz wrote: > You are not the first to comment on the fact that it feels weird that > the shell launches new windows like this, and I agree. The reason why > fish doesn't use man-pages is simple: hyperlinks. Having hyperlinks in > the documentation enables the reader to quickly move between related > subjects to find the section he/she is looking for, which I think is a > very large benefit, bigger than all the associated downsides.
how many hyperlinks are there in the builtin reference page? i counted less than a dozend. there are man->html converters out there that can turn manpage references into links, or other converters which can generate man and html format from a common base (not sure if that's docbook or something else) > As Frederik pointed out, you can customize which browser is used using > e.g. 'set -U BROWSER links', so this should not be a major problem. on some systems needing to install any browser could be a problem. it is just another dependency, and that's not good for something as important as documentation. (in some cases i could not even run man and had to read the manpages from source, there i would have preferred a real plaintext format. the simpler the better) > This is documented in the help section for the help command, which can > be found by typing 'help help'. which i could not see of course ;-) > This of course means that most of the time, fish has no idea what > browser is used to display the help. I guess in that case, one simply > writes 'help is being displayed in a window of your default browser' > or something like that. i used: echo "help is being displayed in a window of" $fish_browser which tells me exactly what i want to know, namely which executable fish has found for use. greetings, martin. -- cooperative communication with sTeam - caudium, pike, roxen and unix offering: programming, training and administration - anywhere in the world -- pike programmer travelling and working in europe open-steam.org unix system- bahai.or.at iaeste.(tuwien.ac|or).at administrator (caudium|gotpike).org is.schon.org Martin Bähr http://www.iaeste.or.at/~mbaehr/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Fish-users mailing list Fish-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users
