[Scummvm-devel] OSystem::displayLogFile()

[Peter B]

Hi,

That would be an incorrect assumption. "less" is not always available.
"more" most likely is though.

MVH,
-- 
Peter Bortas

On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Alex Bevilacqua <alexbevi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Couldn't you do something along the lines of:
> xterm -e less $PATH_TO_SCUMMVM_LOG
>
> I'm assuming both commands are available (by default) on all *NIX distros. I
> was going to recommend a GUI message + xclip, but xclip isn't installed by
> default :P
> On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Thierry Crozat <criezy at scummvm.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 3 June 2011 15:21, Max Horn <max at quendi.de> wrote:
>> >
>> > Am 03.06.2011 um 15:06 schrieb Willem Jan Palenstijn:
>> >
>> >> On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 01:36:48PM +0200, Max Horn wrote:
>> >>> I made a preliminary implementation of OSystem::displayLogFile(), for
>> >>> Mac OS
>> >>> X only. I hope others will add at least implementations for Windows
>> >>> and
>> >>> Linux. I hope the doxygen docs are clear enough for that, but if in
>> >>> doubt,
>> >>> ask.
>> >>
>> >> I don't have much experience with these desktop things on Linux, but
>> >> could we
>> >> use xdg-open for this on Linux? I hope most modern distributions
>> >> support that.
>> >
>> > Sounds plausible to me. Just go ahead and implement it (or get somebody
>> > else to do it, but it should be only a few lines anyway). Ideally, of
>> > course, also with some code that detects if xdg-open is available first.
>> > This way, fallbacks could be implemented.
>> >
>> > What about *BSD* systems? Do they also have xdg-open, or something
>> > similar?
>> >
>> For info xdg-open is not installed by default on my Linux distro at
>> work (CentOS) although there is a xdg-utils package to install it. I
>> have gnome-open and kfmclient (for gnome and kde respectively). I
>> can't comment on wether most recent distro have it or not by default,
>> but apparently not all of them do, so having a fallback would be good.
>>
>> Thierry
>>
>>
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