Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 17:15:39 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> Cc: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: man(1) Message-ID: <20040804141539.GB26281@ip.net.ua> In-Reply-To: <20040804133938.GA3067@online.fr> References: <BAY8-F72aIQJxKgEmti001189bf@hotmail.com> <20040804042951.GA1371@online.fr> <20040804073012.GA685@arthur.nitro.dk> <20040804073532.GA22846@ip.net.ua> <20040804133938.GA3067@online.fr>
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--NDin8bjvE/0mNLFQ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 09:39:38AM -0400, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > Ruslan Ermilov said on Aug 4, 2004 at 10:35:32: > > On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 09:30:12AM +0200, Simon L. Nielsen wrote: > > > On 2004.08.04 00:29:51 -0400, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > > > I was wrong about calling it BSD man... it's GNU man, but a much ol= der > > > > version than what current linux systems ship. > > > > > > > > I can work on a patch for this specific feature when I get some tim= e. > > > > Before I start, is there any reason people may think this is a bad > > > > idea? > > >=20 > > > Well, it can be done without a patch... I use the following tcsh alias > > > so I can just write 'manf foo.1' : > > >=20 > > > groff -Wall -Tascii -te -mandoc !^ | less > > >=20 > > You need to use ``-mtty-char -man'' to get the correct output. (-man > > or -mandoc doesn't matter.) >=20 >=20 > Well that kinds of proves my point... you expect new users to know all > this? I myself have used something like "groff -Tascii -mandoc" but > only after a few years of using unix. >=20 No, I don't even expect new users to worry about formatting the manpage source files like ``man /usr/src/bin/cat/cat.1''. ;) And someone could put this hint into the FreeBSD fortune file. I'm not opposed to the idea of man(1) being able to work with a pathname arguments, if the patch is small. Cheers, --=20 Ruslan Ermilov ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer --NDin8bjvE/0mNLFQ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBEO+LqRfpzJluFF4RAovPAJ9VzoaZohDSN8fnP9Tgo12fGC6VjQCeJJIB GNFo8W6qTLK4nkF0j394c/s= =vXmE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --NDin8bjvE/0mNLFQ--
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