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Bug#538022: marked as done (PAGER as a pipeline)

Your message dated Sun, 30 Aug 2020 13:00:01 +0200
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and subject line Re: Bug#538022: PAGER as a pipeline
has caused the Debian Bug report #538022,
regarding PAGER as a pipeline
to be marked as done.

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Package: general
Severity: normal

I want to use vim as my man pager. On other distros, and on sarge, I use this line 
in my .bashrc

# Set vim as the man pager
export PAGER="col -b | view -c 'set ft=man nomod nolist titlestring=MANPAGE' -"

In those systems, it displays the man page properly in vim with full color. However, 
on using the same line on sid, the error given is 

[rohan@debian ~]$ man man
Reformatting man(1), please wait...
col: invalid option -- c
usage: col [-bfhpx] [-l nline]
man: command exited with status 256: /usr/bin/zsoelim /tmp/zmanGiFFlw | /usr/bin/tbl 
| /usr/bin/nroff -mandoc -rLL=89n -rLT=89n -Tutf8 | col -b | view -c set ft=man 
nomod nolist titlestring=MANPAGE -
[rohan@debian ~]$

I dont why it is passing -c to col, where it should pass it to "view" i.e. vim. 


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_IN, LC_CTYPE=en_IN (charmap=UTF-8)

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* Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>:
> On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 06:21:02PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote:
[..]
> > Else, please explain what's the general bug to track here.
> 
> The general bug is that not even sensible-pager implements $PAGER as a
> pipeline, and thus it seems to me that we systemically don't support
> this facility. If we want to support that, we're talking about changes
> to more than just man-db; I expect there are packages other than
> sensible-utils and man-db that have problems.

As nobody seems to have had interest in this in the last 11 years,
lets close this discussion for now. Interested parties who also
bring the drive to make the required changes can start a new
discussion in a better place.

Chris

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