so, which pager do you recommend on win?
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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!?!?
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> 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)
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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.
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> 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...
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