Re: [SLE] Info vs. Man -- Konqueror to the Rescue!

From: Sunny (sloncho_at_gmail.com)
Date: 02/16/05

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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 22:10:56 -0600

    On Tuesday 15 February 2005 19:11, Randall R Schulz wrote:
    > Hi,
    >
    > I wanted to share with the list a "discovery" I made recently. As some
    > may already know but I only just learned, the list of protocols /
    > schemes (as in the label preceding the ':' in an address entered in the
    > Konqueror location bar) is not only extensible, but quite extensive.
    >
    > In particular, there's a scheme for displaying "info" files.
    >
    > Those who routinely resort to the "man" command (often following the use
    > of the "apropos" or "man -k" command) will often find themselves
    > remanded to the info entry for complete documentation.
    >
    > Furthermore, those who, like me, dislike the "info" program as a viewer
    > for info files may be pleased to know that Konqueror has a protocol
    > specifically for presenting info files. It presents info files in a
    > form far more accessible than the info command itself. You can think of
    > it as being an HTML conversion of a command's info files.
    >
    >
    > (At this point, I'll shamefacedly admit that until just today, when I
    > decided to check out its info entry, I was laboring under the
    > assumption, reinforced by the limited information included in its man
    > page, that the Gnu "sed" command did not support extended regular
    > expressions. Oh, how hard I've made my life by not looking into this
    > much sooner!)
    >
    >
    > To see the complete list of Konqueror protocols configured for your
    > system, run "kinfocenter" and select the "protocols" category. Some of
    > the protocols include a documentation string that explains their use.
    > If there's a KDE Menu entry for this, I don't know what it is. If
    > someone out there does, please enlighten me.
    >
    >
    > Randall Schulz

    This is good, but unfortunately it does not work for me.

    The problem is that I have setup my default browser to be firefox. And now,
    when I key in info:/xxx in Konqueror, it renders (I suppose) the info page,
    but then it pops up a box asking if I want to save the page, or open it with
    firefox. Save is not an option, and selecting to open in firefox invokes
    firefox, but sends it an URL of the type info:/xxx (as it have to). And
    firefox can not handle it, and displays that external application have to be
    launched. And clicking OK there does nothing.

    I'm using SuSE 9.1 with KDE 3.3.2 level"a" build, and FireFox 1.0.

    Any suggestions how to brake this magic circle (yeah, I can select konq to be
    default browser, but ...)

    Sunny 

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