Heh, this is classic.
Brian
On 11 Jul 2000 commitlogger@hocus.collab.net wrote:
> +
> +
> +;; Much of the APR documentation is embedded perldoc format. The
> +;; perldoc program itself sucks, however. If you're the author of
> +;; perldoc, I'm sorry, but what were you thinking? Don't you know
> +;; that there are people in the world who don't work in vt100
> +;; terminals? If I want to view a perldoc page in my Emacs shell
> +;; buffer, I have to run the ridiculous command
> +;;
> +;; $ PAGER=cat perldoc -t target_file
> +;;
> +;; (Not that this was documented anywhere, I had to figure it out for
> +;; myself by reading /usr/bin/perldoc).
> +;;
> +;; Non-paging behavior should be a standard command-line option. No
> +;; program that can output text should *ever* insist on invoking the
> +;; pager.
> +;;
> +;; Anyway, these Emacs commands will solve the problem for us.
Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:05 2006