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Feature request: remove the dependancy on man for help #21

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ScrumpyJack opened this issue Jun 10, 2016 · 3 comments
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Feature request: remove the dependancy on man for help #21

ScrumpyJack opened this issue Jun 10, 2016 · 3 comments

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@ScrumpyJack
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It would be nice not to have a dependancy on man and the rover man page for in application help.

@lecram
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lecram commented Jun 19, 2016

I don't know what's your specific use case, but man pages can be converted in plain text or html.

Dependencies are undesirable, but I haven't bothered too much with man because I already need it for everything else in Unix. The only thing I have considered is adding the option to display a simple table of key bindings from inside Rover. It would remove the need for consulting the manual all the time. As a bonus, it would show the actual key bindings compiled in (from config.h), not the default ones.

@ScrumpyJack
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"I don't know what's your specific use case"
I'm packaging rover for Alpine Linux, which splits man pages into separate package.

@lecram
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lecram commented Jun 30, 2017

Sorry, I don't think I will implement in-application help (or any other nontrivial feature, for that matter) in the near future. I'm leaving this issue open in case anyone else is interested and can write the code.

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