On 4/18/06, Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > You or Gmail didn't honor my Reply-To:, please drop the superfluous > debian-devel Cc:.
Sorry for it, now debian-devel is not being cc'ed. > > On Tue, Apr 18, 2006, Rohan Dhruva wrote: > > view: -s option is only applicable to ex. > > man: command exited with status 256: /usr/bin/zsoelim /tmp/zmanujhMpV > > | /usr/bin/tbl | /usr/bin/nroff -mandoc -rLL=89n -rLT=89n -Tutf8 | sh > > -c col -b | view -c 'set ft=man nomod nolist titlestring=MANPAGE' - > > Please note that this is a different error than the one you reported > initially. The first error your reported was caused by usage of pipes > in a command-line configuration option, and was solved by using sh -c, > the second error you're reporting is probably a bug in whatever the > "view" program is on your system. On my system, I installed vim which > provides view, perhaps you're using something else. > > Could you please send the output of: > ls -l `which view` /etc/alternatives/view > > You can also try installing "vim" and see if it fixes your bug. > That was exactly what I wanted in the first place, so I did have vim installed. The problem is that, alternatives had symlinked view -> nview, which I reconfigured to vim. So, now, sh -c "col -b | view -c 'set ft=man nomod nolist titlestring=MANPAGE' -" works great. I guess that solves the bug, but still stumps me why export PAGER="col -b | view -c 'set ft=man nomod nolist titlestring=MANPAGE' -" "Just Works" (tm) in sarge. Maybe the method of invoking $PAGER changed between sarge and sid. > > Attached file -- man.strace > > This proved that nothing is called with "-s" (exactly as in the above > man error message which quotes "-s option", but -s is nowhere in the > line). And yes, also stumps me where the "-s" came from ? Thanks a lot for pointing me towards alternatives, Rohan. -- Rohan Dhruva Proud GNU/Linux user. Windows: "Where do you want to go today?" Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming or what?" http://www.dhruva.be/
