Bug#205702: less: provide text preprocessors as an option for users
thanks for your reply. clearly you don't want text preprocessors for yourself. but why not provide the most common ones for those who want it? i don't think they will ask you to make it default. instead they will be grateful for saving them the debugging. man using less does not work because i want all of the man pages in less so that i can go back and forth among the man pages. instead it only lets you go to the next file and you have to press return. -- Webmaster: do you believe that people will (a) switch browsers to view your best viewed with page or (b) go to your competitor? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#205702: less: provide text preprocessors as an option for users
Hi, well, that's right, I don't want text(file) processors for less :-) Frankly spoken, including optional text(file) processors would very likely raise questions and requests to make (at least some of) them standard... What I have done a few years ago was to offer users a standard interface to integrate their own custom file processors. I still believe that's the right way to go to process text files. As far as manpages are concerned: man itself can use less as a pager program. But maybe this does not offer all the features that you'd like to have? Thomas Original-Nachricht Datum: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 21:27:19 -0700 Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] An: Debian Bug Tracking System [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Bug#205702: less: provide text preprocessors as an option for users Package: less Version: 394-2 Followup-For: Bug #205702 it would be nice if you could provide the text preprocessors, such as for man pages, as an option, perhaps as a separate script. it is not trivial for users to figure out how to process man pages to work with less. recently, my setup which worked fine on man zshall stopped including the other pages, and the zsoelim error messages disappeared because less took over the screen and they did not appear after less quit. i don't have the time now to try to fix it, so i am stuck with running less without good man page support or running man without good paging support (i like to go to the next file inside less rather than one at a time). we get it that you don't want to have less preprocess text :-). but doing so as an option should be beneficial, without affecting default behavior. thanks. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.16myver Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages less depends on: ii debianutils 2.16.1 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii libc6 2.3.6-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libncurses5 5.5-2 Shared libraries for terminal hand less recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- Echte DSL-Flatrate dauerhaft für 0,- Euro*! Feel free mit GMX DSL! http://www.gmx.net/de/go/dsl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#205702: less: provide text preprocessors as an option for users
Package: less Version: 394-2 Followup-For: Bug #205702 it would be nice if you could provide the text preprocessors, such as for man pages, as an option, perhaps as a separate script. it is not trivial for users to figure out how to process man pages to work with less. recently, my setup which worked fine on man zshall stopped including the other pages, and the zsoelim error messages disappeared because less took over the screen and they did not appear after less quit. i don't have the time now to try to fix it, so i am stuck with running less without good man page support or running man without good paging support (i like to go to the next file inside less rather than one at a time). we get it that you don't want to have less preprocess text :-). but doing so as an option should be beneficial, without affecting default behavior. thanks. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.16myver Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages less depends on: ii debianutils 2.16.1 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii libc6 2.3.6-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libncurses5 5.5-2 Shared libraries for terminal hand less recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
