Bug#725157: man-db: /etc/mailcap of man page

2014-09-20 Thread Kevin Ryde
The "see /usr/share/man/man1/man.1.gz" of my original post no longer gives mime type text/x-troff-man due to regression in the "see" program. It still recognises filename .man as a man page so this change of man-db would be to benefit something like see /usr/share/cvs/contrib/descend.man ("se

Bug#725157: man-db: /etc/mailcap of man page

2014-09-16 Thread Colin Watson
Control: tag -1 pending On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 04:15:01PM +1000, Kevin Ryde wrote: > This is an idea for /etc/mailcap entries to run "man" on man pages. > It allows for example > > see /usr/share/man/man1/man.1.gz > > to display with man in either X or a tty, and also non-interactive like >

Bug#725157: man-db: /etc/mailcap of man page

2013-10-01 Thread Kevin Ryde
Package: man-db Version: 2.6.5-2 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch This is an idea for /etc/mailcap entries to run "man" on man pages. It allows for example see /usr/share/man/man1/man.1.gz to display with man in either X or a tty, and also non-interactive like the following (though groff-base