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$REFER doc patch (was Re: [Groff] confused by soelim)
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Jorgen Grahn |
Subject: |
$REFER doc patch (was Re: [Groff] confused by soelim) |
Date: |
Thu, 16 Jan 2003 09:56:27 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.2.5i |
On Wed Jan 15 14:31:07 2003, address@hidden wrote:
...
>
> Anyway, I agree that this is a missing feature. The best solution
> IMHO is to add an environment variable to `refer', say, `REFER_PATH',
> together with a command line variable, say, `-I' or `-m', which
> defines a search path for files included with the `include' and
> `database' commands of `refer'.
Speaking of which, I've noticed that refer(1) doesn't mention
$REFER. Here's a patch for that (sorry if the patch format is
non-standard).
/Jörgen
Index: src/preproc/refer/refer.man
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RCS file: /var/cvs/groff/src/preproc/refer/refer.man,v
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -c -r1.4 refer.man
*** src/preproc/refer/refer.man 11 Dec 2002 14:26:21 -0000 1.4
--- src/preproc/refer/refer.man 16 Jan 2003 08:40:39 -0000
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*** 1289,1294 ****
--- 1289,1298 ----
.TP
.IB file @INDEX_SUFFIX@
Index files.
+ .SH ENVIRONMENT
+ .Tp \w'\fBREFER'u+2n
+ .B REFER
+ If set, overrides the default database.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR @address@hidden (@MAN1EXT@),
.BR @address@hidden (@MAN1EXT@),
--
// Jörgen Grahn "And then the design was ignored, and small children
\X/ <address@hidden> with crayons were given the O'Reilly Perl books and
told to Create. And lo, it was done."
-- Teo de H, in ASR