Werner LEMBERG <w...@gnu.org> wrote:
|> Wouldn't it be useful to have the possibility of recursively
|> searching the subdirectories of a directory in GROFF_TMAC_PATH,
|> typically with the addition of a double-slash at the end of the
|> concerned directory's name? (Cf. TeX's TEXINPUTS.)
|>
|> E.g.,
|>
|> export GROFF_TMAC_PATH=$HOME/groffinputs//:
|>
|> would cause .mso to search for its file at any subdirectory depth
|> under $HOME/groffinputs.
|
|Definitely! A few years ago I've already suggested to use the
I'm inclined to absolutely disagree given that
?0[sdaoden@wales roff.git]$ git grep GROFF_TMAC 1.02
1.02:Makefile.bd:# you must set the GROFF_TMAC_PATH environment variable.
1.02:man/groff.man:.B GROFF_TMAC_PATH
1.02:man/gtroff.man:.B GROFF_TMAC_PATH
1.02:troff/input.c:#define MACROPATH_ENVVAR "GROFF_TMAC_PATH"
?0[sdaoden@wales roff.git]$ gl1 1.02|head -5
commit 351da0d (tag: refs/tags/1.02)
Author: James Clark <j...@jclark.com>
Date: 1991-06-02 04:20:34 -0500
groff before CVS: release 1.02
and i know about the crap i personally have done with path
variables not so many years ago.
And then think about the special path "//" which' behaviour is
implementation defined as well according to POSIX.
For the S-roff fork ("unforking" patches to groff is Public
Domain), which will ship with the class file_case patch that is on
the bugtracker (enabling .so over compressed paths, and enabling
any file to be compressed what some Brits don't like, however),
i like the idea of further extensions and fixes in that area, but
definetely not as suggested, so either a configuration option to
implicitly change the above or, more likely, a new environment
variable / configuration option. (Configuration is too scattered
in my eyes.)
|kpathsea library for groff's file management. In particular, it would
|allow for multiple font configuration files.
This is all too hardwired and restricted, and then scattered at
the same time. Nothing a normal person can deal with easily.
|However, I didn't have time and energy to implement it. So please
|file a `wishlist' report to the backtracker.
I'm still hoping for the upcoming years.
--steffen
