From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Oct 25 08:56:14 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64515E43357 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2017 08:56:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ik@sjmulder.nl) Received: from out4-smtp.messagingengine.com (out4-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 359723A89 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2017 08:56:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ik@sjmulder.nl) Received: from compute3.internal (compute3.nyi.internal [10.202.2.43]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F2D7225DD for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2017 04:56:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend1 ([10.202.2.160]) by compute3.internal (MEProxy); Wed, 25 Oct 2017 04:56:11 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=sjmulder.nl; h= content-transfer-encoding:content-type:date:from:in-reply-to :message-id:mime-version:references:subject:to:x-me-sender :x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc; s=mesmtp; bh=ijzRL/bggU1XZM9QrxgcnqIVvJ HJNl4uN6wQ7HtZjuE=; b=LAeBzLWUMQR5N6eIz0Oz1aEHuAii2gQF86iupGf9ov tXwR+5VR0nuI2YbflgaNOuivgcE8JGoGE4oZsK9ctA/yBNzja6pV1v8Tnk9hU78w dA4fswfxp0AUIPN4OBwqnqUhneu2sWM7wim4Qf4HNuUDbrJDcuZlqsW9XTBVQBOi E= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=content-transfer-encoding:content-type :date:from:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version:references :subject:to:x-me-sender:x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc; s=fm1; bh=ijzRL/ bggU1XZM9QrxgcnqIVvJHJNl4uN6wQ7HtZjuE=; b=kZKxaRJmz+9k4LGZVxhFLP dacSFkOLha6rxCST4igMxitpxHvRfwUKRMh7s3wycGTSeSzHMiImNm0Lm7tAK1CH Vln7m5nKKMCPdPOxbmgseZWComefHlJRsbOmNM3GTQDPOum8rsIB9bmJ3xlfeRpJ FJFW7hYctI8u3HtRrM8FVXlwkB84gm5WrOEs7qEL8pNsXpO2Uq2mQdJs3EGkIF/D xdA0zPtyVB7xt7IM1eDqTazA95csfTZVw1ydMAVtXe0JQbi+XKGk09JhvAnFdWe8 4mK2wFqJjCGIjOQhal6OvH/i3e/LuEF2bqq8X0dJFdO2Inpcp+niTvZe5keisxbQ == X-ME-Sender: Received: from [10.50.6.46] (unknown [87.213.224.178]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 03D737F967 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2017 04:56:10 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: A request to segregate man pages for shell built-ins To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <6f62db58-8220-0fe4-133b-410da2f58579@qeng-ho.org> From: "Sijmen J. Mulder" Message-ID: <57bd52d4-bf61-454f-1b11-d7f96aa1c049@sjmulder.nl> Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 10:56:22 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Language: en-GB X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 08:56:14 -0000 Hi, Whilst I do appreciate builtin(1)'s comprehensiveness I too find it hard to nagivate. Op 25-10-2017 om 10:10 schreef Matthew Seaman: > In the case of eg. echo(1), I'd be happy to see the existing page for > the stand-alone echo refactored to cover all of the different flavours > of echo -- the behaviour is much the same in most use cases -- plus some > discussion on how the variants differ. This seems like a good solution. But, how would shells in ports deal with this? A builtin(1)-like foosh(1), or foosh_echo(1), foosh_case(1), etc? Sijmen