On 23 Aug 1996, Ed Donovan wrote: > Rick Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > For emacs users, my deb-view feature is just what you need to look at > > doc files in a .deb file without installing _or_ unpacking the archive! > > > > http://www.cuug.ab.ca:8001/~macdonal/deb-view.el > > Ditto. Some of these dpkg docs are html; if you have w3, when you > deb-view one of these docs you can 'w3-preview-this buffer' to display > it right. It can't follow the links (hmm...that'd have to be pretty > abstract) so view each file separately, if that's comfy for you.
I realized this last night, and added support for W3 into deb-view. I'm going to add INFO support as well, then I'll announce the update. I guess neither mode will be able to follow links, but it's still very useful. ...RickM...