Issue 1621: Set $MAN_PN when displaying help.

Title	Set $MAN_PN when displaying help.
Priority	wishlist	Status	needs-implementation
Milestone		Resolved in
Superseder		Nosy List	darcs-devel, dmitry.kurochkin, jaredj, twb
Assigned To		Topics	ProbablyEasy

Created on 2009-09-20.08:48:21 by twb, last changed 2009-09-21.22:08:44 by kowey.

msg8845 (view)

Author: twb

Date: 2009-09-20.08:48:18

On GNU/Linux, man(1) sets the environment variable $MAN_PN to
e.g. "regex(7)".  Both less and w3m check for this environment
variable and display it to the user.

It would be neat if "darcs help foo" and "darcs foo --help" set MAN_PN
to something like "foo - darcs(1)" before invoking the pager.

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2009-09-20 08:48:21	twb	create
2009-09-21 22:08:44	kowey	set	priority: wishlist status: unknown -> needs-implementation topic: + ProbablyEasy nosy: + jaredj

Issue 1621 Set $MAN_PN when displaying help.