MANPAGER=o no longer works

[kseistrup]

When I set MANPAGER=o, all I get when attempting to view a manpage is o saying “Loaded empty file: - (read only)”.

It looks like o is not reading from standard input, and when invoked as o - (some utilities regard - as a synonym for standard input), o will just create a file named -.

So I am wondering: Does MANPAGER=o really work?

Is this possibly related to #7?

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• orbiton: 2.60
• go: 1.20.2 linux/amd64
• $TERM: xterm-256color

[xyproto]

Thanks for reporting! I'll check.

[xyproto]

It works as it should here, using Alacritty and ZSH, on Arch Linux.

I tried MANPAGER=o man ls.

Which terminal emulator are you using?

[kseistrup]

Which terminal emulator are you using?

I have tried in terminator, sakura, xterm, lilyterm, and alacritty (!) × the shells fish, bash, and osh.

I have compiled o from the sources (from the orbiton package on AUR (pkgver=2.60.4-1)), but I get the same result with the pre-compiled version for x86_64 that I can download from the release section here. No difference.

My pc is running with the en_DK.UTF-8 locale. Switching to C does not help.

I can see that the man command is spawning o, but o claims that the file is empty. However, setting MANPAGER=cat tells me that the input is non-empty (as expected).

Running ps | o will show me the same “Loaded empty file: -” message at the bottom of o's “window”, and from my point of view it looks like o cannot or does not read anything from standard input.

(I tried the pre-compiled binary for aarch64 on an RPi just now and see the same thing (not reading standard input).)

[xyproto]

Thanks for all the testing! I'll try reproducing the issue.

[xyproto]

I can reproduce the issue now. 👍

[xyproto]

It works again here now. Please test. :)

[kseistrup]

Thanks, it works now! :+1: