On 5/23/21 10:53 PM, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote:
>> The use of a dash/minus as a separator "feels" unorthodox to me, but
>> perhaps that is just the pull of blind tradition. I think it's actually
>> a better choice than an underscore because of course "-" is not valid in
>> a C identifier, and "_" is, so ambiguity is avoided.
>
> I used struct-foo because man has the ability to allow either
> 'man struct-foo' or 'man struct foo', and the latter looks very
> intuitive from a C-syntax perspective (I learnt this from the git manual
> pages, where you can do 'man git log' or 'man git-log'). 'man man'
> doesn't specify this behavior, so I'll read the source code and try to
> confirm how it works.
I would need some time to understand the code, but perhaps it's around
lines 1303 or 1396
.../man-db$ grep -rn "'-'" src/man.c;
1013: if (dbfilters && (dbfilters[0] != '-') && !preprocessors) {
1303: case '-':
1396: if (*pp_string == ' ' || *pp_string == '-')
2921: if (*source->pointer != '-')
3222: if (*in->pointer != '-')
.../man-db$ grep -rn "' '" src/man.c;
797: case ' ':
810: if (*(manopt + 1) == ' ')
1302: case ' ':
1396: if (*pp_string == ' ' || *pp_string == '-')
2415: putchar (' ');
4051: } else if (cmd[i] == '\t' || cmd[i] == ' ' || cmd[i] == '\n' ||
$
>
> Regards,
>
> Alex
>
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Alejandro Colomar
Linux man-pages comaintainer; https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/
