On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 08:07:56PM -0400, Federico Lucifredi wrote: > I am all for bass-ackwards compatibility, and I think the suggestion of > going on "man foo bar" : > > 1) look for foo-bar; if success, terminate search > 2) look for foo > 3) look for bar > .... > > may be acceptable - I don't see drawbacks at a first glance, and it would > allow for groups of pages to be meaningful. Well, the drawback is that there exist X-Y such that X and Y both have manpages (e.g., cvs-debc on my debian box). So we are assuming that the risk is acceptably low of somebody asking for "man X Y", wanting two manpages, and that X and Y fit this pattern. Personally I have never ever wanted to see two manpages from one man invocation, so I have no real problem with that assumption. > Are you willing to put your patch where your mouth is? :-) I've never looked at man code before, but there seem to be at least two man packages for Linux. My boxes have man-db 2.5.2. -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
