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Re^3: [emacs] perldoc on windows

by BillKSmith (Monsignor)
on Mar 23, 2018 at 17:24 UTC ( [id://1211623]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^2: [emacs] perldoc on windows
in thread [emacs] perldoc on windows (update)

Refer to ENVIRONMENT on how to use other pagers.
Bill

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Re^4: [emacs] perldoc on windows
by LanX (Saint) on Mar 23, 2018 at 17:29 UTC

      I have Git installed for Windows in a C:\usr\bin\git directory. Then I added C:\usr\bin\git\usr\bin to the path (yes, that path is correct, not a copy/paste error). That directory has all sorts of Unix useful commands without the need for Cygwin - including less.exe for pager.

      Another site is GnuWin32 which has *roff utils. I installed groff in C:\usr\bin\groff and with a simple batch file called 'man.bat', I can get man pages from the source.1 files - which I've put in C:\usr\share\man.

      Why the hell don't I just use Linux!?!?

        > Why the hell don't I just use Linux!?!?

        Ask my employer. :/

        update

        Look Emacs and Perl try heavily to be platform independend.

        There is no reason to have a dependency on man, nroff, sed and awk.

        Anyway there is plenty of legacy code depending on man, and eLisp should be flexible enough to use woman instead.

        (If I had the time I'd produce a pod2info converter)

        Cheers Rolf
        (addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :)
        Wikisyntax for the Monastery

      On some windows systems, I am able to use the gvim editor as a 'pager'. I then have perl-like regexs to search the entire document. When this does not work, I settle for 'more'. Actually, I was hoping that you would mention a better option.
      Bill
        > Actually, I was hoping that you would mention a better option.

        I can certainly use emacs -nw as a pager, but this is becoming somehow circular now! :)

        BTW: my colleagues had problems installing gvim...

        Cheers Rolf
        (addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :)
        Wikisyntax for the Monastery

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