Jeff King wrote:
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.
That's right.
Personally I have never ever wanted to see two manpages from one man
invocation, so I have no real problem with that assumption.
I expected as much, and we should have an option to disable the "new"
behavior as a safety anyway.
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.
There are two man packages for linux, man and man-db, the latter being a
90's fork that uses Berkeley DB as a backend to speedup man -k searches
(it helped back then).
Best -F
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