Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 12:18:42 -0500 (CDT) From: "Sean C. Farley" <scf@FreeBSD.org> To: "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" <unixmania@gmail.com> Cc: svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r192398 - in head/usr.bin: . perror Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905211214150.94622@thor.farley.org> In-Reply-To: <e71790db0905201558u1c8e3e90n1fbbfc4011e22909@mail.gmail.com> References: <200905191740.n4JHeMMU005087@svn.freebsd.org> <20090520200138.GA33344@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <e71790db0905201558u1c8e3e90n1fbbfc4011e22909@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, 20 May 2009, Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote: > On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> wrote: >> On 2009-May-19 17:40:22 +0000, "George V. Neville-Neil" <gnn@freebsd.org> wrote: >>> Log: >>> Add a new program, perror, which takes an errno as a command line >>> argument and outputs the associated textual message in the same way >>> that perror(3) would if called within a program. *snip* >> I'm not sure of the utility of this tool. One downside is that man >> perror will now return perror(1) instead of perror(3) > > So does "man printf", which is a pity. It bytes me each time I'm using > Vim and press "k" over the word. :-( For Vim, either set keywordprg to "man -a" to get all man pages for a word, or type a number before "k" to get the man page in a specific section. Sean -- scf@FreeBSD.org
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