Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 04:15:36 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: "Kevin P. Neal" <kpn@neutralgood.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Where is the info viewer? Message-ID: <20190912041536.a6c47dbe.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20190912011457.GA78075@neutralgood.org> References: <20190910070033.GA29721@admin.sibptus.ru> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1909102030500.59741@fledge.watson.org> <20190911041439.9ba45e18.freebsd@edvax.de> <10971217-3072-cfee-785d-3748e9879a2f@gmail.com> <20190911110708.95a9b3f8.freebsd@edvax.de> <44ftl3hrdf.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20190911160926.5b3549c3.freebsd@edvax.de> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1909111123160.59741@fledge.watson.org> <73a70d38-ff87-54b0-89ef-2aae257b03df@hedeland.org> <20190912025852.57f64546.freebsd@edvax.de> <20190912011457.GA78075@neutralgood.org>
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On Wed, 11 Sep 2019 21:14:57 -0400, Kevin P. Neal wrote: > On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 02:58:52AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > > It's also possible to the Midnight Commander: PF3 on a .info.gz > > file will make it readable (even though no highlighting as if it > > was a manpage). > > Wait, that's weird. PF3 is supposed to back out of the current screen. > What kind of OS are we talking about? :) Oops, my old people mainframe heritage is showing! ;-) According to SAA, PF3 is exit, PF12 is cancel, PF1 is help - mostly universal to 3270- and 5250-based dialog applications, but also used on some DOS (not _that_ DOS, the other one) applications. And I think even AIX SMIT (the IBM UNIX) used it. Midnight Commander, _on FreeBSD_: As a descendant of the Norton Commander (when the name "Norton" was definitely _not_ a name you immediately associated with yellow vomit), it uses PF3 for viewing files. The MC has a set of "viewer helpers", for example, for images it will show EXIF information, for MP3 files ID3 tags, for manual pages it will render them - and it also works for info pages, so "mcview" could be used as "info replacement" (if you have the MC installed already). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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