>>>>> Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
>> It was suggested that man-db gets one more command as well, to
>> do the checking in a ``standard way''. So, I suggest the
>> following:
>> * add support for an MANROFFOPT environment variable to specify
>> extra arguments to groff (analogous to MANROFFSEQ and MANOPT);
> I like this, thanks; I've applied your patch with a few small
> modifications, and also added documentation of it to man(1).
Thanks!
> If you want to check this out, install bzr and run:
> bzr get http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~cjwatson/bzr/man-db/trunk/
I'm glad to see that so many projects benefit from using DVCS'
nowadays! (Though I've recently had some problems managing a
Mercurial repository -- there're just so many DVCS'... Anyway,
1.5 years experience with GNU Arch helps much.)
Unfortunately, there're a plenty of projects I'm interested to
participate in which still use centralized VCS'...
>> * add a command, `manwe' (for ``MAN with Warnings Enabled''),
>> which will behave just like `man', but with (some) Groff
>> warnings enabled;
> While I appreciate the Silmarillion pun :-),
Well, I was just struck by the fact that `manwe' could be an
appropriate name for such a program. Indeed, it's even more
appropriate than `manlint', which was suggested before (since
`lint' is a static analysis tool, and `groff -wmac' certainly
isn't.)
I just had no chance to resist writing a patch!
> I'm not very keen on another command just for this. I would rather
> have something like 'man --warnings'.
May I suggest --warnings[=WHICH-ONES] then?
> Once I finish converting man to argp, it will be easier to add
> options without trashing translations every time.
In general, I don't care that much about the way this behaviour
is triggered. However, I'd really be happy if Bug#377392 would
be closed soon.
Certainly, Argp allows argument parsing to be implemented in a
much flexible way.
>> Please note that `manwe' would only work as intended if `man' is
>> to call `groff'. So, `-t' option may be necessary, e. g.:
>> $ manwe -t ifconfig > /dev/null
>> <standard input>:63: warning: `Note:' not defined
>> $
> I just sent a patch to the groff mailing list to teach its nroff shell
> script about -w and -W options. If this is accepted upstream, I'll also
> apply it to the Debian groff package.
ACK.
>> --- man-db-2.5.0-debian-3/src/man.c 2007-11-24 01:54:12.000000000 +0600
>> +++ man-db-2.5.0-debian-3-manwe/src/man.c 2007-11-24 02:15:52.000000000
>> +0600
>> @@ -1522,6 +1529,7 @@
>> cmd = command_new_args (fmt_prog, file, pp_string, NULL);
>> if (roff_device)
>> command_arg (cmd, roff_device);
>> + command_argstr (cmd, roff_opt);
>> pipeline_command (p, cmd);
>> }
>>
> Note that this part is incorrect because, for better or worse, the
> interface to custom format programs doesn't support adding *roff options
> (see e.g. tools/mandb_fmt-script). Fortunately, as far as I know hardly
> anyone uses this feature.
I must confess that I don't really understand this ``external
formatter'' feature. May it be useful to specify extra options
to one? Should it be done differently (e. g., via a different
environment variable)?
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