Bug#108006: tetex-bin: texdoc should use mailcap to find viewing programs
Package: tetex-bin
Version: 1.0.7+20001218-5
Severity: wishlist
currently texdoc uses these programs as defaults:
: ${TEXDOCVIEW_dvi='( xdvi %s ) &'}
: ${TEXDOCVIEW_pdf='( acroread %s ) &'}
: ${TEXDOCVIEW_ps='( ghostview %s ) &'}
: ${TEXDOCVIEW_html='( netscape %s ) &'}
: ${TEXDOCVIEW_txt="${PAGER-more} %s"}
it should not be hard to change it to use commands from mailcap by
running see(1) from mime-support.deb
eg: TEXDOCVIEW_ps='see %s >/dev/null &'
the ">/dev/null" causes see to not have a terminal available, and thus
will spawn its own xterm to run needsterminal mailcap entries -- this
will keep existing backgrounding behaviour. (personally i'd prefer
having simply "see %s" for all of them, and having to background it
myself)
suggesting mime-support would be better than having to suggest acroread,
netscape and ghostview too ;)
since see(1) handles common encodings itself too, it would be possible
to remove that code from texdoc(1). this is a larger change tho.
-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Kernel Version: Linux roach 2.4.7 #2 Wed Jul 25 11:26:19 EST 2001 i686 unknown
Versions of the packages tetex-bin depends on:
ii debianutils 1.15 Miscellaneous utilities specific to Debian.
ii dpkg 1.9.16 Package maintenance system for Debian
ii ed 0.2-19 The classic unix line editor
ii libc6 2.2.3-9 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
ii libkpathsea3 1.0.7+20001218 shared libkpathsea for teTeX
ii libpng2 1.0.12-2 PNG library - runtime
ii libstdc++2.10- 2.95.4-0.01072 The GNU stdc++ library
ii libtiff3g 3.5.5-5 Tag Image File Format library
ii libwww0 5.3.2-5 The W3C-WWW library.
ii libxaw7 4.1.0-2 X Athena widget set library
ii perl-base 5.6.1-5 The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister.
ii tetex-base 1.0.2+20000804 basic teTeX library files
ii xlibs 4.1.0-2 X Window System client libraries
ii zlib1g 1.1.3-15 compression library - runtime
libwww-ssl0 Not installed or no info
--- Ignoring modified conffile /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf (>8k)
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