Re: [vile] vile-pager

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, 27 Apr 2008, Paul van Tilburg wrote:

> I'm talking about Debian here.. it is installed.. though I get the complaint
> trying to use vile-pager.
> But, why do we need it.. is calling HighlightFilter not enough?

no - HighlightFilter doesn't do the same type of markup as vile-manfilt.

The former adds markup which vile reprocesses to show bold- and other
fonts or colors.  After the reprocessing, the buffer contents should be
the same text as before adding markup.

The latter substitutes one type of markup for another - and attempts to
leave the "real" text untouched.

> It's also inconvent, because it seems to me.. that now the file is always
> fed to vile via stdin.. and thus the suffix mode detection fails.

yes, that's a limitation of piping a file to vile.  In that case, the
only clue it has for the contents would be the first line (the 
"preamble").  I suppose it there were a command that could set the
majormode from a parameter as if the parameter were the filename,
then one could enhance vile-pager, e.g.,

        cat foo.c | vile-pager -name foo.c

but you can use "set-h" to set a specific type with the existing
commands, so it would be possible to modify vile-pager to do
something like

        cat foo.c | vile-pager -type c

and make that show the buffer contents in "c" mode (cmode).

(Did that make sense?)

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