Date: Sun, 9 Feb 1997 16:30:47 +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.19970209163047.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <19970209153631.SO02083@keltia.freenix.fr>; from Ollivier Robert on Feb 9, 1997 15:36:31 %2B0100 References: <Mutt.19970209121157.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> <10128.855488661@critter.dk.tfs.com> <Mutt.19970209145536.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> <19970209153631.SO02083@keltia.freenix.fr>
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As Ollivier Robert wrote: > And Perl5 has solved this problem by dividing the old-fat manpage into > several manpages by subject... But this simply doesn't work, unless you already know what you're looking for, but in this case, you don't need the man page at all. :-) 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. Maybe Poul's idea isn't too bad, to split the Perl manual by functions, and drop them into a separate section. This could easily be the last section in the search order (Perl bigots are free to put a MANSEC in their environment moving it earlier), something like section `p'. But still i think, an HTML ref would be better, there you can search either by function name or by function group. But then, i really want the small and terse man page back! :-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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