Re: man page rendering speed (was: Playground pager lsp(1))

2023-04-08 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Branden, > You're referring to cat pages. As far as I know, these are on their > way out if not already gone. catman must die. It was never a good solution to the problem. As well as ignoring different TERMs, it also didn't handle a user's variations to a terminal's definition. I'm glad to

Re: man page rendering speed (was: Playground pager lsp(1))

2023-04-07 Thread Alejandro Colomar
Hi Gavin, On 4/7/23 21:28, Gavin Smith wrote: > On Fri, Apr 07, 2023 at 09:04:03PM +0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote: >> $ time man -w gcc | xargs zcat | groff -man -Tutf8 2>/dev/null >/dev/null >> >> real 0m0.406s >> user 0m0.534s >> sys 0m0.042s >> >> But as others said, I don't really care about

Re: man page rendering speed (was: Playground pager lsp(1))

2023-04-07 Thread Gavin Smith
On Fri, Apr 07, 2023 at 09:04:03PM +0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > $ time man -w gcc | xargs zcat | groff -man -Tutf8 2>/dev/null >/dev/null > > real 0m0.406s > user 0m0.534s > sys 0m0.042s > > But as others said, I don't really care about the time it takes to format > the entire document,

Re: man page rendering speed (was: Playground pager lsp(1))

2023-04-07 Thread Alejandro Colomar
Hi! On 4/7/23 17:06, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2023 09:43:19 -0500 >> From: "G. Branden Robinson" >> Cc: alx.manpa...@gmail.com, d...@gouders.net, cjwat...@debian.org, >> linux-...@vger.kernel.org, help-texi...@gnu.org, groff@gnu.org >> >> ...which brings me to the other facto

Re: man page rendering speed (was: Playground pager lsp(1))

2023-04-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Apr 07, 2023 at 09:43:19AM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > At 2023-04-07T09:36:10+0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > From: "G. Branden Robinson" > [re-running *roff when a viewing a man page and resizing the terminal] > > > Seems like it shouldn't be impossible to me, but what I imagine

Re: man page rendering speed (was: Playground pager lsp(1))

2023-04-07 Thread Larry McVoy
On Fri, Apr 07, 2023 at 06:06:39PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2023 09:43:19 -0500 > > From: "G. Branden Robinson" > > Cc: alx.manpa...@gmail.com, d...@gouders.net, cjwat...@debian.org, > > linux-...@vger.kernel.org, help-texi...@gnu.org, groff@gnu.org > > > > ...which br

Re: man page rendering speed (was: Playground pager lsp(1))

2023-04-07 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2023 09:43:19 -0500 > From: "G. Branden Robinson" > Cc: alx.manpa...@gmail.com, d...@gouders.net, cjwat...@debian.org, > linux-...@vger.kernel.org, help-texi...@gnu.org, groff@gnu.org > > ...which brings me to the other factor, of which I'm more confident: man > page rend