"James K. Lowden" wrote:
|On Fri, 29 Apr 2016 17:50:52 +0200
|Ingo Schwarze wrote:
|Have you experimented with a single index for all man pages? I wonder
|how useful that would be, or how it might be subdivided. An index that
|spanned pages would be helpful for sets of routines covered by
On Fri, 29 Apr 2016 17:50:52 +0200
Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> I was talking about the CVS HEAD version of the mandoc toolbox from
> bsd.lv, sorry that i didn't say that explicitly.
Ah, I see, OK.
> > I'm pretty sure my man invokes mandoc as "mandoc". Would that be a
> > problem?
>
> That cann
Hi James,
James K. Lowden wrote on Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 10:40:41AM -0400:
> On Fri, 29 Apr 2016 10:56:52 +0200
> Ingo Schwarze wrote:
>> 4. Let the man(1) steering program fork and exec less(1).
> I'm using NetBSD 7.0, and my /usr/bin/man doesn't work as you
> describe, at least not for pd
On Fri, 29 Apr 2016 10:56:52 +0200
Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> It can't work when you pipe by hand.
Thanks for the detailed explanation, Ingo. I wrote the simplest
possible test, and it turned out to be too simple! Einstein, right?
> 4. Let the man(1) steering program fork and exec less(1).
Hi James,
James K. Lowden wrote on Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 08:18:51PM -0400:
> On Thu, 28 Apr 2016 19:10:22 +0200
> Ingo Schwarze wrote:
>> Take a large manual, for example ksh(1).
>> With the mandoc-based implementation of man(1), type
>>
>> $ man ksh
>>
>> Then inside less(1), type
>>
>> :
