From owner-freebsd-current Sun Feb 9 08:35:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA23147 for current-outgoing; Sun, 9 Feb 1997 08:35:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from labs.usn.blaze.net.au (labs.usn.blaze.net.au [203.17.53.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA23141 for ; Sun, 9 Feb 1997 08:35:46 -0800 (PST) Received: (from davidn@localhost) by labs.usn.blaze.net.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA00445; Mon, 10 Feb 1997 03:35:42 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: <19970210033542.33207@usn.blaze.net.au> Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 03:35:42 +1100 From: David Nugent To: freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3.0-970124-SNAP: man page search order References: <10128.855488661@critter.dk.tfs.com> <19970209153631.SO02083@keltia.freenix.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.61 In-Reply-To: ; from J Wunsch on Feb 02, 1997 at 04:30:47PM Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Feb 02, 1997 at 04:30:47PM, J Wunsch wrote: > Get me right, i'm a great fan of Perl, but i haven't been able > to make any use out of the Perl5 man page yet, much unlike the > Perl4 one. Agreed. OTOH, I do use the .html pages, and often, and almost always to look up a function in the perlfunc page. Which is why I think.. > Maybe Poul's idea isn't too bad, to split the Perl manual by > functions, and drop them into a separate section. ..this is even better. I wouldn't even mind having to specify a section. Regards, David Nugent - Unique Computing Pty Ltd - Melbourne, Australia Voice +61-3-9791-9547 Data/BBS +61-3-9792-3507 3:632/348@fidonet davidn@freebsd.org davidn@blaze.net.au http://www.blaze.net.au/~davidn/