Jon Snader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I stand corrected on your desktop set up, but I'm willing to
> concede only half the point. With your desktop, calling up a man
> page from your editor would cause a browser to pop up. That's a
> little distracting, perhaps, but not nearly so much as having to
> switch desktops.
True. But I'm not understanding why you think that's such a crucial
point. It's not as though it's difficult to write an invocation that
says "pull up a browser *here*, I mean *here*, even if I already have
one running on another desktop".
> I was a sloppy here. What I meant is a single *virtual desktop*,
> not a single application window.
Yes, but even with that correction I wouldn't make that argument. I
don't mistake my preferences for laws of nature. If I did, several
things related to this project would have been designed quite a bit
more prescriptively :-).
> For me, and I think many others,
> getting a man page in an editor window does make sense and I
> wouldn't want to lose that ability.
I agreed with you about this last time. I still don't see how it's
relevant to the question of man's default behavior. I readily concede
that I like M-x man in some circumstances -- but what in the heck does
that have to do with what happens when I type 'man foo' in an xterm?
To put it more directly: suppose man went to using a browser as
a default when you call it from an xterm. You seem to believe
that implies M-x man going away. Why do you believe that?
One of us is missing something basic here.
--
<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>
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