Re: tangent on man page locations [was Re: Using .XCompose]

On Mon 06 Jul 2020 at 23:08:29 (+), davidson wrote: > On Mon, 6 Jul 2020 David Wright wrote: > > > I presume XCompose(3) is a typo for 5, the file format section. > > Probably not. Here we have > […] > and hence > > $ man -w 3 XCompose > /usr/share/man/man5/Compose.5.gz > > $ man -w 5

tangent on man page locations [was Re: Using .XCompose]

On Mon, 6 Jul 2020 David Wright wrote: I presume XCompose(3) is a typo for 5, the file format section. Probably not. Here we have $ zcat /usr/share/man/man3/XCompose.3.gz .so man5/Compose.5 $ realpath /usr/share/man/man5/XCompose.5.gz /usr/share/man/man5/Compose.5.gz and hence $