Re^4: [emacs] perldoc on windows

[LanX]

so, which pager do you recommend on win?

[VinsWorldcom]

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!?!?

[LanX]

> 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)

[BillKSmith]

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.

[LanX]

> 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...

[Happy-the-monk]

You can get gvim as a portable app, then you need no installation.

Cheers, Sören