Control: tag -1 pending On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 04:15:01PM +1000, Kevin Ryde wrote: > This is an idea for /etc/mailcap entries to run "man" on man pages. > It allows for example > > see /usr/share/man/man1/man.1.gz > > to display with man in either X or a tty, and also non-interactive like > the following (though groff-base trumps this just yet ...) > > run-mailcap --action=cat /usr/share/man/man1/man.1.gz > > The debian/man-db.mime file below can be taken by dh_installmime to > install as /usr/lib/mime/packages/man-db.
Thanks! I've applied this more or less verbatim, although I added text/troff lines to match each of the application/x-troff-man lines, as that seems to be what's needed with current file(1). http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-man-db/man-db.git/commit/?id=af63b7267097fc2a56607a31f3da8b3d5384a276 > /usr/lib/mime/packages/groff-base has a "copiousoutput" entry at > priority=5 which is above what I propose here for man non-interactive, > which means for now the groff bit has precedence in the --action=cat > above. > > I think the groff should be lower, but that will be a matter of groff > and man-db cooperating. The priority levels apply before the output > style is considered, so usually any copiousoutput should be below any > interactive viewing. Well, I maintain groff as well, so send me patches. I don't really use mime-support much myself, so I'm happy to take guidance from those who do. > # "man -X" is only priority=6 since the gxditview it runs is rather > # basic and perhaps something more sophisticated could be higher. The > # X entry is before the tty so the X is preferred under X. (The tty > # one still works there, in its declared needsterminal.) > # > # "-X100" seems to make better output than the default -X 75 dpi. > # Dunno if that's some font dodginess or matching the X server's > # advertised screen size resolution or something. > # > # "test -e gxditview" because it's in the "groff" package which is > # only a Suggests of man-db and so may not be available. Did you consider something like -Tpdf, which generally looks much nicer? Is it possible to chain MIME handlers, so that we can say "this command converts text/troff into image/pdf, and then you should go and work out how to display image/pdf"? > # "-Tascii" gives backspace overstriking, so use "col -b" to undo > # that. Piping to col also means "man" has a non-tty output and so > # does not run its usual "more" etc pager, ensuring this entry is > # non-interactive. > # > application/x-troff-man; /usr/bin/man -Tascii -l '%s' | col -b; > copiousoutput; description=Man page; priority=2 Why not -Tutf8 here? Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
