Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 02:35:35 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: jwe@che.utexas.edu Subject: Re: A patch to man to handle "man.1"... Message-ID: <20030719233535.GF77396@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <3F19C78A.7030008@mac.com> References: <3F19C78A.7030008@mac.com>
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--GdbWtwDHkcXqP16f Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 06:34:50PM -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Hi, all-- >=20 > I've always thought that specifying sections via "man -s 1 man" or "man 1= =20 > man" was ugly, and didn't work very well with filename completion. Diff= =20 > relative to /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/man to also handle the syntax of "man=20 > man.1": >=20 That would break man(1); currently, the "man ld-elf.so.1" displays the manpage, and your patch precludes the use of ".[0-9]" in the tails of manpage names. Cheers, --=20 Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software Ltd, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer --GdbWtwDHkcXqP16f Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/GdXHUkv4P6juNwoRArKsAJ0XPuTzaYWI/WGiYAHU3v3K3ca8FQCgiRI6 Pd3OEuECGpNcSo+eJvdHNOQ= =HnHw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --GdbWtwDHkcXqP16f--
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