On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 09:43:01PM +0200, Emanuele Rocca wrote:
> With this mail I'm downgrading the severity and retitling the bug,
> because I think that simply stating clearly that it's mandatory to
> define both COMMAND and REGEXP in ~/.urlview is enough.
This seems appropriate.
> 
> More precisely, the manpage already states it. You may object that it's
> not clear at all. Right. :)
You betcha ;^)
> 
> quoting urlview(1):
>       urlview attempts to read ~/.urlview upon startup.  If this file 
> doesn???t
>       exist, it will try to read a system wide file in 
> /etc/urlview/system.urlview
> 
> *If this file doesn't exist*, it will try to read...
Hate to be argumentative... but it also states that it has default
values for REGEXP and COMMAND, I understood that it would only read one
of the configuration files - but I figured it would have the default
values hard-coded into the program.

> Any suggestion to improve the man page is very welcome.
Your suggestion above seems good enough.

Thanks again for all your help in sorting this out.

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