Date: Sun, 9 Feb 1997 12:11:57 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3.0-970124-SNAP: man page search order Message-ID: <Mutt.19970209121157.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <9632.855479839@critter.dk.tfs.com>; from Poul-Henning Kamp on Feb 9, 1997 10:17:19 %2B0100 References: <Mutt.19970208234401.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> <9632.855479839@critter.dk.tfs.com>
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As Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> Well, somebody find out what it takes to fix the search order and
> that end of that story.
That's not difficult. It's in src/gnu/usr.bin/man/lib/config.h_dist:
static char *std_sections[] =
{
"1", "n", "l", "6", "8", "2", "3", "4", "5", "7", "9", "p", "o", NULL
};
(It can be overridden by a MANSEC variable, btw.)
Now comes the difficult part: what's the best order?
static char *std_sections[] =
{
"1", "8", "2", "3", "n", "4", "5", "6", "7", "9", "l", NULL
};
???
> > I never got it right why Tcl
> >installs its man pages into the inofficial section `n' in the manual
> >at all
>
> Well maybe it should be called .t instead then ?
I don't mind this idea.
> >(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.
Hmm, if there's something i don't like about Perl, it's its man page/
standard documentation. Ideally, i'd love a short man page, and some
longer HTML ref. The same would probably hold for Tcl as well. Look,
the C compiler man page doesn't describe the entire C language
either...
--
cheers, J"org
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