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| author | Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> | 2008-03-07 08:46:55 +0100 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2008-03-11 23:02:01 -0700 |
| commit | b5578f333595e40cb843461e685c887ad2d01e5c (patch) | |
| tree | deafb32462331fd8df4787b990f4c8d8bb6f04cb /Documentation/git-help.txt | |
| parent | 649499845c274dc15809fe3c9162408c334fec57 (diff) | |
| download | git-b5578f333595e40cb843461e685c887ad2d01e5c.tar.gz | |
Documentation: help: describe 'man.viewer' config variable
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Tested-by: Xavier Maillard <xma@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-help.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-help.txt | 32 |
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-help.txt b/Documentation/git-help.txt index 0926dc12ba..73a51ae039 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-help.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-help.txt @@ -33,17 +33,21 @@ OPTIONS option supersedes any other option. -i|--info:: - Use the 'info' program to display the manual page, instead of - the 'man' program that is used by default. + Display manual page for the command in the 'info' format. The + 'info' program will be used for that purpose. -m|--man:: - Use the 'man' program to display the manual page. This may be - used to override a value set in the 'help.format' - configuration variable. + Display manual page for the command in the 'man' format. This + option may be used to override a value set in the + 'help.format' configuration variable. ++ +By default the 'man' program will be used to display the manual page, +but the 'man.viewer' configuration variable may be used to choose +another display program (see below). -w|--web:: - Use a web browser to display the HTML manual page, instead of - the 'man' program that is used by default. + Display manual page for the command in the 'web' (HTML) + format. A web browser will be used for that purpose. + The web browser can be specified using the configuration variable 'help.browser', or 'web.browser' if the former is not set. If none of @@ -61,15 +65,23 @@ line option: * "man" corresponds to '-m|--man', * "info" corresponds to '-i|--info', -* "web" or "html" correspond to '-w|--web', +* "web" or "html" correspond to '-w|--web'. The 'help.browser', 'web.browser' and 'browser.<tool>.path' will also be checked if the 'web' format is chosen (either by command line option or configuration variable). See '-w|--web' in the OPTIONS section above and linkgit:git-web--browse[1]. -Note that these configuration variables should probably be set using -the '--global' flag, for example like this: +The 'man.viewer' config variable will be checked if the 'man' format +is chosen. Only the following values are currently supported: + +* "man": use the 'man' program as usual, +* "woman": use 'emacsclient' to launch the "woman" mode in emacs +(this only works starting with emacsclient versions 22), +* "konqueror": use a man KIO slave in konqueror. + +Note that all these configuration variables should probably be set +using the '--global' flag, for example like this: ------------------------------------------------ $ git config --global help.format web |