Bug#432037: texlive-base-bin: texdoc should use "see" as default viewer for every type
Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, Norbert Preining wrote:
>
>> On Fre, 06 Jul 2007, Reuben Thomas wrote:
>>> By using "see" as the universal default, the user can configure
>>> viewers for file types displayed by texdoc using the standard MIME
>>
>> I assume that you are disturbed by
>> ${TEXDOCVIEW_dvi='(xdvi %s) &'}
>> because it uses xdvi instead of see. Right? All others use either see or
>> PAGER:-sensible-pager which is the right way to do it.
>
> I'm disturbed by everything that's not see. In particular, I'm not
> happy with sensible-pager being used here because I have PAGER set to
> less, but under X I'd rather use Emacs to display text files. I can't
> set PAGER to gnuclient, emacs, or whatever, because some programs rely
> on its being a terminal program, e.g. man.
>
> xdvi also makes me unhappy, yes.
This is going to be fixed once the new upstream contains my new texdoc
script which uses luatex.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
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