Bug#363250: general: Custom PAGER gives error on sid, but works on sarge

2006-04-18 Thread Rohan Dhruva
Package: general Severity: normal I want to use vim as my man pager. On other distros, and on sarge, I use this line in my .bashrc # Set vim as the man pager export PAGER=col -b | view -c 'set ft=man nomod nolist titlestring=MANPAGE' - In those systems, it displays the man page properly in

Re: Bug#363250: general: Custom PAGER gives error on sid, but works on sarge

2006-04-18 Thread Rohan Dhruva
On 4/18/06, Loïc Minier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: reassign 363250 manretitle 363250 Please clarify how $PAGER is invoked in the man manpagestopHi,On Tue, Apr 18, 2006, Rohan Dhruva wrote: export PAGER=col -b | view -c 'set ft=man nomod nolist titlestring=MANPAGE' - This $PAGER definition makes

Re: Bug#363250: general: Custom PAGER gives error on sid, but works on sarge

2006-04-18 Thread Rohan Dhruva
Also, IMHO, topic is a bit wrong .. this bug applies to all man pages, not only the man manpage. Regards,-- Rohan DhruvaProud GNU/Linux user.Windows: Where do you want to go today? Linux: Where do you want to go tomorrow?FreeBSD: Are you guys coming or what?http://www.dhruva.be/

Re: Bug#363250: general: Custom PAGER gives error on sid, but works on sarge

2006-04-18 Thread Rohan Dhruva
retitle 363250 Please clarify how $PAGER is invoked for any manpage.stopSorry for the spam, I did not know I can retitle bugs myself.-- Rohan DhruvaProud GNU/Linux user.Windows: Where do you want to go today? Linux: Where do you want to go tomorrow?FreeBSD: Are you guys coming or

Re: Bug#363250: general: Custom PAGER gives error on sid, but works on sarge

2006-04-18 Thread Rohan Dhruva
On 4/18/06, Loïc Minier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: reassign 363250 man-db retitle 363250 please clarify in the man manpage how $PAGER is invoked stop Hi, On Tue, Apr 18, 2006, Rohan Dhruva wrote: I suggest you use: export PAGER=sh -c \col -b | view -c 'set ft=man nomod