Hello Oleg, On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 15:49, Oleg Tarasov wrote: > There are 2 ways to implement this situation: > 1) if [file] in [manpath-dirs] use groff > else use normal viewing > 2) if [file] in [logfile-dirs] use normal viewing > else use groff > > Let's see. Most manpages are most commonly located in: > > /usr/share/man > /usr/local/man > ... (add here a couple of common dirs) > > Also, you can much harder evaluate common paths to log files as they > are much more specific due to implementation of software and operation > systems and their configuration.
By matching for */log/* or */logs/* most .[1-9] files are viewed using groff. I consider this a good thing. Plus the user can override this, but not the other way around. Only the files in */log/* or */logs/* are viewed as plain text. (In both scenario's a man page in /var/log would be viewed as plain text so you don't loose anything there either.) Viewing most .[1-9] files with groff and putting the exception on the specific log file paths really seems the most sensible thing to do. Leonard. -- mount -t life -o ro /dev/dna /genetic/research _______________________________________________ Mc mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc