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List:       perl5-porters
Subject:    Re: [perl #22329] v5.8.0: perldoc -m does not accept options in PAGER
From:       Michael G Schwern <schwern () pobox ! com>
Date:       2003-05-31 10:16:12
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On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 04:12:22PM -0000, Manoj Kumar wrote:
> When invoked with -m, perldoc does not accept options
> in PAGER (e.g., PAGER="less -isr").  The offending
> code is below (starts at line 473 in the file):

Technically, you should be setting that up as:

PAGER=less
LESS=-isr

more works similarly.


> if ($opt_m) {
>     foreach my $pager (@pagers) {
>         if (system($pager, @found) == 0) {
> 
> One fix is to pass a single argument to system(),
> perhaps like this:
> 
>        if (system("$pager @found") == 0) {
> 
> This assumes module pathnames need not be quoted.

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