Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 15:22:40 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Manish Jain <bourne.identity@hotmail.com> Cc: Erwan DAVID <erwan@rail.eu.org>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: A request to segregate man pages for shell built-ins Message-ID: <20171025152240.b83f20e5.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <VI1PR02MB12005A16022101E37C9C4D00F6440@VI1PR02MB1200.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com> References: <VI1PR02MB1200817E0E2CDD2A2A42E1A5F6440@VI1PR02MB1200.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com> <f88cd63e-3cbc-4463-5219-99d204742b85@FreeBSD.org> <15f52853ee8.2787.c09309b3b9b6c7ba483efefa0c51d672@rail.eu.org> <VI1PR02MB12005A16022101E37C9C4D00F6440@VI1PR02MB1200.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com>
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On Wed, 25 Oct 2017 08:03:03 +0000, Manish Jain wrote: > > > On 10/25/17 13:23, Erwan DAVID wrote: > > That would mean doing a new section per shell eg (1bash) (1csh) (1zsh) > > each shell has its own builtins, Hicham can differ (compare set in bash > > and csh ) > > Perhaps a new, unique section of man pages (something like section 99) > implemented for sh only and which can be called by any shell with the > same syntax : 'man 99 set' Or like pkg's "sub-manpages", with a hyphen: % man echo-csh compared to % man test-bash And for "identical implementations", compound manuals just as if you'd use "man 3 malloc" or "man 3 calloc" to take you to the same manual page. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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