Re: Problem while viewing rotated log files

2005-07-06 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
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

Re: Problem while viewing rotated log files

2005-07-06 Thread Oleg Tarasov
Hello Leonard, Leonard den Ottolander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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. I agree. Anyway most of lof files are placed in */log/* and */logs/* despite of their

Re: Problem while viewing rotated log files

2005-07-06 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
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

Re: Problem while viewing rotated log files

2005-07-04 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello, On Sun, 3 Jul 2005, Roland Illig wrote: Pavel Tsekov wrote: I can assume that on a decent distro the manpages go in the same location more or less. I.e. the package maintainers build the packages with common set of directories. So this idea is not as bad as you seem to imply. And

Re: Problem while viewing rotated log files

2005-07-04 Thread Oleg Tarasov
Hello, It is not possible to implement anything that suites ALL systems. There must be a solution that suites MOST systems. 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

Re: Problem while viewing rotated log files

2005-07-03 Thread Roland Illig
Pavel Tsekov wrote: I can assume that on a decent distro the manpages go in the same location more or less. I.e. the package maintainers build the packages with common set of directories. So this idea is not as bad as you seem to imply. And it was merely a suggestion after all. If you only

Re: [PATCH] Re: Problem while viewing rotated log files

2005-07-03 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Jindrich, On Sun, 2005-07-03 at 14:18, Jindrich Makovicka wrote: Leonard den Ottolander wrote: Some improvements: - Don't match capital letters in the man regexs. There are no such man pages on my system (Linux). Please correct me if they are on other systems. XFree, Perl, SDL,

Re: [PATCH] Re: Problem while viewing rotated log files

2005-07-03 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi, Roland Illig pointed out to me that @localstatedir@ gets expanded to ${prefix}/var/log. He proposed a match for */log/* instead which I think is a good idea as it will also match .[1-9] files in other /log/ directories. All other .[1-9] files will be interpreted as man pages. Comments?

Re: [PATCH] Re: Problem while viewing rotated log files

2005-07-03 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi, On Sun, 2005-07-03 at 15:44, Roland Illig wrote: What about this patch? Spoke about this with Roland and added a match for */logs/* as well. Also match %d/%f instead of just %d in case mcview is invoked from a different directory (i.e. not via the panels). Committed the final patch to HEAD

Re: Problem while viewing rotated log files

2005-07-01 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello, On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Roland Illig wrote: The problem with all this is that the file command does not reliably test the file type inside b/gzipped files so we have to do some trickery. Does the attached patch fix the issue (adds a test for the location /var/log)? Isn't it

Re: Problem while viewing rotated log files

2005-06-30 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi, (Continuing this discussion on mc-devel.) On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 12:52, Pavel Tsekov wrote: files under that directory are manpages ? Or use `localstatedir' to determine the location of the /var folder ? How does that work? Using @localstatedir@ instead of /var in the .in file? Leonard.

Re: Problem while viewing rotated log files

2005-06-30 Thread Roland Illig
Pavel Tsekov wrote: Hello, On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: The problem with all this is that the file command does not reliably test the file type inside b/gzipped files so we have to do some trickery. Does the attached patch fix the issue (adds a test for the location

[PATCH] Re: Problem while viewing rotated log files

2005-06-30 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi, On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 00:53, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: How does that work? Using @localstatedir@ instead of /var in the .in file? Checking a Makefile.in this indeed seems to be the case :) . More specific cases of course should come first. Leonard. -- mount -t life -o ro /dev/dna

Re: Problem while viewing rotated log files

2005-06-30 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi, (Continuing this discussion on mc-devel.) On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 12:52, Pavel Tsekov wrote: files under that directory are manpages ? Or use `localstatedir' to determine the location of the /var folder ? How does that work? Using @localstatedir@ instead of /var in the .in file? Leonard.

Re: Problem while viewing rotated log files

2005-06-26 Thread Reynir Stefansson
From: Oleg Tarasov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Another problem is in those errors coming up when exiting viewing logrotated files (no matter in raw or processed form). Errors like Cannot adjust line and cannot break line. Something should be done. Workaround: Press Shift-F3 to bypass all filtering.

Re: Problem while viewing rotated log files

2005-06-25 Thread Oleg Tarasov
Hello, Another problem is in those errors coming up when exiting viewing logrotated files (no matter in raw or processed form). Errors like Cannot adjust line and cannot break line. Something should be done. -- Best regards, Oleg Tarasov mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problem while viewing rotated log files

2005-06-25 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi Rob, Please compare http://mail.gnome.org/archives/mc-devel/2005-January/msg00012.html . Marcin Garski and I have been brainstorming ont his issue on IRC (#mc-devel) in December. On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 13:39, /dev/rob0 wrote: On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: Does the

Re: Problem while viewing rotated log files

2005-06-24 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hello, On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: The problem with all this is that the file command does not reliably test the file type inside b/gzipped files so we have to do some trickery. Does the attached patch fix the issue (adds a test for the location /var/log)? Isn't it

Re: Problem while viewing rotated log files

2005-06-24 Thread /dev/rob0
On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: The problem with all this is that the file command does not reliably test the file type inside b/gzipped files so we have to do some trickery. Does the attached patch fix the issue (adds a test for the location /var/log)? The patch

Re: Problem while viewing rotated log files

2005-06-24 Thread Oleg Tarasov
Hello, /dev/rob0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Press F8 to switch to raw mode. Note, that saves state, so if you try viewing a groff source file later it will be raw. You'd have to press F8 again to toggle it back. Switching to raw mode when viewing COMPRESSED logrotated files comes to a view of

Re: Problem while viewing rotated log files

2005-06-23 Thread /dev/rob0
On Thursday 23 June 2005 08:35, Oleg Tarasov wrote: Usually if one wants to view rotated log file (eq maillog.5.bz2) pressing F3 did the job - file is unpacked and viewed normally. But now something changed and these files are viewed in a strange Feature, not a bug. :) Try browsing your man

Re: Problem while viewing rotated log files

2005-06-23 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi rob0, Oleg, On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 17:43, /dev/rob0 wrote: The groff feature has been there for many years. I agree, it's an annoyance when viewing logrotate files, but it's minor and the benefit is worthwhile. The problem with all this is that the file command does not reliably test the

Problem while viewing rotated log files

2005-06-23 Thread Oleg Tarasov
Hello, I'm running FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE and I have everything configured for using mc in russian koi8r codepage. Also my console is configured in VESA_132x43. I have the latest ported version of mc installed. Usually if one wants to view rotated log file (eq maillog.5.bz2) pressing F3 did the job

Re: Problem while viewing rotated log files

2005-06-23 Thread Gergely Szasz
Hi! The secret: blahblah.#[.gz|bz2?] is interpreted as a manpage (in section #) and mc try to show as a manpage :-), so do word wrapping at column xx. Gergely ___ Mc-devel mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel

Re: Problem while viewing rotated log files

2005-06-23 Thread /dev/rob0
On Thursday 23 June 2005 08:35, Oleg Tarasov wrote: Usually if one wants to view rotated log file (eq maillog.5.bz2) pressing F3 did the job - file is unpacked and viewed normally. But now something changed and these files are viewed in a strange Feature, not a bug. :) Try browsing your man