Date: Sun, 09 Feb 1997 10:17:19 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.dk.tfs.com> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3.0-970124-SNAP: man page search order Message-ID: <9632.855479839@critter.dk.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 08 Feb 1997 23:44:01 %2B0100." <Mutt.19970208234401.j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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In message <Mutt.19970208234401.j@uriah.heep.sax.de>, J Wunsch writes: >As Robert N Watson wrote: > >> 2. The real thing is this. The man page search order finds all of the c >> programming calls after the TCL ones, so "man bind" returns TCL's bind, >> not the syscall bind. Well, somebody find out what it takes to fix the search order and that end of that story. >I'm also fairly annoyed by this. I never got it right why Tcl >installs its man pages into the inofficial section `n' in the manual >at all (is it really something to be considered `new' these days? :), >but it's particularly annoying to have this section being searched in >front of the standard sections. Well maybe it should be called .t instead then ? >(I wonder what people would say if we now also came up with another >set of man pages for already used names, for everything inside of >Perl. :-) I think that would be a good idea. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Power and ignorance is a disgusting cocktail.
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