[GRASS5] g.help

[Markus Neteler]

On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 01:42:07PM +0900, GRASS wrote:
> Hi developers,
> 
> Is g.help deprecated? It does not work with new manpage files, not man dir
> structure.  g.help can not understand unformatted man files, so i tested
> 	man -M $GISBASE/man/man1/some > somenew
> now g.help can read the somenew file. g.manual also work with this.
Hi Huidae,

perhaps g.help can learn to convert on-the-fly from MAN to text format (as
proposed above)?
 
> LOOKUP file has old man dir structure and without extension .1. It's easy to
> update. However, g.help needs man/man2/* files, which do not exist.
Due to the HTML conversion all files are in one directory (as you know).
Personally and opposite to UNIX conventions I don't see much sense in
supporting topic oriented man/man1, man/man2... sections. As the user
won't go directly into these directories, I don't understand why we would
need such separation. Perhaps I missing something here?

Generally (if updated) the g.help could be a nice help. But the
keyboard settings are still very odd (d        - Scrolls down one line etc.)
I could only manage to implement PAGEUP and PAGEDOWN...

Regards

 Markus

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