Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 00:26:04 -0700 From: Gordon Tetlow <gordon@tetlows.org> To: Anonymous <swell.k@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CFR: Replace man/manpath/whatis/apropos with a shell script Message-ID: <AANLkTimzJV9B_8Ue94JjoUG=48NM8GFaJTtwQex9yvo_@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <868w3aem0a.fsf@gmail.com> References: <AANLkTi=d1RqZhkJJ94DioZkBq3Pq5vrj0kxBSgdW%2BUUo@mail.gmail.com> <86sk2b79oi.fsf@gmail.com> <AANLkTimRLPe25WeG5JSJJeNbHstq7KizJ-eHOKF-Ju-T@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTim3OJH_B_ZmEbxSvg6Ehww=D8X1e1tYhMrhROZi@mail.gmail.com> <868w3aem0a.fsf@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Anonymous <swell.k@gmail.com> wrote: > The order is still bogus compared to gnu man. If I don't like our > ancient GNU tools and altered PATH in order to prefer ones from ports > then I certainly don't want to view old manpages, too. The base manpath > should be appended *after* any PATH substitutions. > > $ man -aw gperf # man.sh > /usr/share/man/en.UTF-8/man1/gperf.1.gz > /usr/share/man/man1/gperf.1.gz > LOCALBASE/man/man1/gperf.1.gz > > $ man -aw gperf # gnu man > LOCALBASE/man/man1/gperf.1.gz > /usr/share/man/en.UTF-8/man1/gperf.1.gz > > > $ echo $PATH > > > LOCALBASE/libexec/ccache:HOME/.bin:LOCALBASE/sbin:LOCALBASE/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:HOME/blah/bin > Fixed this up to no longer add an unconditional system search path. While I'm not planning on supporting MANPATH_MAP, I have added special casing for /bin and /usr/bin as encountered in PATH. > And it doesn't show anything when there are no arguments, not even > returning with exit code > 0. > > $ man # man.sh > > $ man # gnu man > What manual page do you want? > zsh: exit 1 man > Added. Updated drop location at: http://people.freebsd.org/~gordon/man.shar Thanks for the feedback, Gordon
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