Re: misc/46185: man pages fail in single user mode

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR misc/46185; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: misc/46185: man pages fail in single user mode
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 17:04:49 +0100

 On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 03:55:00PM +0000, abs%absd.org@localhost wrote:
 
 > This may prove annoying for people who currently expect there to be
 > an actually temporary file which can be edited, but is less of an issue
 > than no manpage access in single user mode.
 
 Why would one want to do that? Isn't that a rare exception, in which case
 you could also just do "man $1 > /tmp/myfile; vi /tmp/myfile" instead?
 
 The other difference is that the pager will not display the position in
 the man page correctly:
 
    --More--(9%)
 
 becomes:
 
    --More--(byte 1086)
 
 Not a big deal, IMHO.
 
 If we make this optional, I'd argue for pipe-mode as default.
 
 Martin