tags 259340 fixed-upstream
thanks
On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 03:16:27PM -0400, Alfie Costa wrote:
> On 14 Jul 2004 at 10:09, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I do use apropos' current behaviour sometimes. Would you be happy with
> > an -a option whose long spelling was --all, so that you'd do:
> >
> > apropos --all cd dvd
> >
> > ? I think I could implement that.
>
> A prefix '-a' would be okay, I was thinking an infix notation would allow
> logical ANDs combined with ORs, NOTs, etc, but as you say, that sort of full
> boolean syntax might be excessive.
>
> Perhaps the long spelling should be '--and'? 'all' wouldn't distinguish
> whether we're looking for:
>
> 1) "all strings with 'cd' OR 'dvd'", or
> 2) "all strings with 'cd' AND 'dvd'.
Fair point. I've implemented this now, so it will be in man-db 2.5.0:
Wed Aug 29 11:57:59 BST 2007 Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Add an option to apropos to display only items matching all keywords
(thanks, Alfie Costa; Debian bug #259340).
* src/whatis.c (args, long_options, main): New -a/--and option for
apropos.
(usage): Document it.
(apropos): Store a count of how many times each item has been seen
in the hashtable. If --and was given, only display an item if its
count equals the number of supplied keywords.
(main): Store the number of supplied keywords. Adjust hash free
function.
* man/man1/apropos.man1 (SYNOPSIS, OPTIONS): Document --and.
* docs/NEWS: Document this.
Cheers,
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Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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