Romain Francoise <romain@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > In some situations it is useful to be able to switch viewers via the > environment, e.g. in Emacs shell buffers. So check the GIT_MAN_VIEWER > environment variable and try it before falling back to "man". > > Signed-off-by: Romain Francoise <romain@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > > The motivation for this is that I want the viewer to be "woman" in > Emacs shell buffers and "man" otherwise, and having an environment > variable (like PAGER or EDITOR) is cleaner than using a > man.viewer.cmd wrapper to do the redirection. Obviously I am biased, as I am among the people who have PAGER=cat and EDITOR=emacsclient, and 70% of whose command invocation is from within the "M-x compile", but I like this. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
