Re: [Monotone-devel] Please review nvm.man-page

[Thomas Keller]

Am 19.08.2010 14:14, schrieb Stephen Leake:
> Stephen Leake <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> For MinGW testing, I commented out the isatty check, so it always dumps
>> the troff source. The tests/manpage test passes.
>>
>> Reading the output with 'man mtn' in a Cygwin bash shell works, and with
>> 'M-x man mtn' in Emacs.
> 
> As another test, I commented out the 'isatty' check, but made it always
> run the interactive command. Running in a Cygwin shell with nroff and
> less in path, that gave:
> 
> bash-3.2$ ./mtn man
> 'nroff' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
> operable program or batch file.
> mtn: fatal: error: ../monotone.man-page/cmd.cc:927: I(fprintf(fp, 
> ss.str().c_str()) != -1)
> mtn: this is almost certainly a bug in monotone.

Interesting, I thought popen uses the same environment like the calling
process, apparently this is not true here. Could you try to change the
command for the hook "get_man_page_formatter_command" like this?

   PATH=... nroff -man -Tutf8 | less -R

and set ... to the needed path specification?

Thanks,
Thomas.

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