Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] help: add "man.viewer" config var to use "woman" or "konqueror"

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 23:46:44 -0800

Looking at this exchange really makes me suspect that these
things should not be in C.  Every time Emacs updates we need
recompilation?  Yuck.

What was the reason we gave up calling out to a single generic
scripted wrapper that the users can just munge to suit their
tastes?