On 13 October 2017, Kazunobu Kuriyama <[email protected]>
wrote:
> 2017-10-13 21:04 GMT+09:00 LCD 47 <[email protected]>:
>
> > On 13 October 2017, Kazunobu Kuriyama <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > > HI,
> > >
> > > To get your patch to work for macOS, I needed to add some tweaks
> > > to that. Please find the attached patch and consider merging it
> > > into yours. Of course, it's fine to me that you reject or modify
> > > it freely; I leave that to you.
> > >
> > > More precisely, contrary to the description it claims (:h
> > > manpager), I haven't been able to get manpager.vim to work for
> > > macOS since it was introduced. As Bram asked for confirmation if
> > > your patch worked for other platforms, I looked into the issue and
> > > found a way to have it work properly for the OS.
> > >
> > > Hopefully, with your patch, the issue is all fixed for the BSD
> > > clan.
> >
> > Sorry, my patch only fixes how manpager.vim works on systems
> > that set $MAN_PN, i.e. _some_ Linuxes.
> >
>
> Did you mean you didn't want to go further beyond those Linuxes? Oh
> my...I thought Bram's word "various systems" meant systems other than
> Linux.
I don't think the MANPAGER way can be salvaged without MAN_PN (i.e.
the problem of "man Xorg" and "man Net::DNS" can't be solved reasonably
without it). That's why my patch only addresses the case where "man"
sets $MAN_PN. That only covers some Linux systems. On other systems
I suggest using a wrapper script instead, that tries to syntesize a
$MAN_PN before running "man".
I tried to explain all this in the previous messages. But I suppose
nobody can really decrypt what I'm trying to say. :)
> OK, if you don't like my patch, it's also fine to me that I send it
> here again separately, though I'm still wondering if we should go
> separately.
[...]
It isn't that I don't _like_ it. Your patch changes the non-MAN_PN
branch, it's unrelated to mine. As I said, I'm suggesting the wrapper
script as a possibly better solution for that ("better" as in, it solves
the "man Xorg" and "man Net::DNS" problem I described in my first
message).
/lcd
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