[Crash-utility] implementation of -h and --help

Markus Armbruster armbru at redhat.com
Tue Jul 17 17:55:51 UTC 2007


Dave Anderson <anderson at redhat.com> writes:

[...]
> I thought you might pick up on the damn "less" issue in the help
> output...  ;-)
>
> To handle that issue, I've decided to do the same thing that
> man(1) does.  The man command does the same thing as crash, i.e,
> it uses "/usr/bin/less -isr" by default, but allows its override
> with a "MANPAGER" environment variable.  So I'm going to allow users
> to hang themselves with CRASHPAGER environment variable.  I hadn't
> thought of using it as part of the help output, but it should
> work there as well.

man(1) says:

       MANPAGER
              If MANPAGER is set, its value is used as the name of the program
              to  use to display the man page.  If not, then PAGER is used. If
              that has no value either, /usr/bin/less -is is used.

Do you plan to fall back to PAGER when CRASHPAGER is not set?




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