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Diffstat (limited to 'miscutils')
| -rw-r--r-- | miscutils/man.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/miscutils/man.c b/miscutils/man.c index 020310677..9ef1ef4a6 100644 --- a/miscutils/man.c +++ b/miscutils/man.c @@ -35,7 +35,9 @@ static int run_pipe(const char *unpacker, const char *pager, char *man_filename) return 1; } - cmd = xasprintf("%s '%s' | gtbl | nroff -Tlatin1 -mandoc | %s", + /* "2>&1" added so that nroff errors are shown in pager too. + * Otherwise it may show just empty screen */ + cmd = xasprintf("%s '%s' | gtbl | nroff -Tlatin1 -mandoc 2>&1 | %s", unpacker, man_filename, pager); system(cmd); free(cmd); @@ -123,6 +125,11 @@ int man_main(int argc ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED, char **argv) fclose(cf); } +// TODO: my man3/getpwuid.3.gz contains just one line: +// .so man3/getpwnam.3 +// (and I _dont_ have man3/getpwnam.3, I have man3/getpwnam.3.gz) +// need to support this... + not_found = 0; do { /* for each argv[] */ int found = 0; |