Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2010 23:48:37 +0400 From: Anonymous <swell.k@gmail.com> To: Gordon Tetlow <gordon@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CFR: Replace man/manpath/whatis/apropos with a shell script Message-ID: <868w3aem0a.fsf@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTim3OJH_B_ZmEbxSvg6Ehww=D8X1e1tYhMrhROZi@mail.gmail.com> (Gordon Tetlow's message of "Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:45:46 -0700") References: <AANLkTi=d1RqZhkJJ94DioZkBq3Pq5vrj0kxBSgdW%2BUUo@mail.gmail.com> <86sk2b79oi.fsf@gmail.com> <AANLkTimRLPe25WeG5JSJJeNbHstq7KizJ-eHOKF-Ju-T@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTim3OJH_B_ZmEbxSvg6Ehww=D8X1e1tYhMrhROZi@mail.gmail.com>
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Gordon Tetlow <gordon@freebsd.org> writes: > Gordon Tetlow <gordon@freebsd.org> writes: >> Anonymous <swell.k@gmail.com> writes: >>> It doesn't search in bin/../man nor in bin/.man. For example, >>> my PATH contains $LOCALBASE/bin:$HOME/.bin, while /etc/ >>> manpath.config >>> is default one and contains /usr/local/man which does not >>> exist here. >> >> Guess I missed that pretty badly in my port. I'll go back and >> retool the logic for this but that'll take a bit of time. > > Added. Latest version at http://people.freebsd.org/~gordon/man.sh The order is still bogus compared to gnu man. If I don't like our ancient GNU tools and altered PATH in order to prefer ones from ports then I certainly don't want to view old manpages, too. The base manpath should be appended *after* any PATH substitutions. $ man -aw gperf # man.sh /usr/share/man/en.UTF-8/man1/gperf.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/gperf.1.gz LOCALBASE/man/man1/gperf.1.gz $ man -aw gperf # gnu man LOCALBASE/man/man1/gperf.1.gz /usr/share/man/en.UTF-8/man1/gperf.1.gz > $ echo $PATH > LOCALBASE/libexec/ccache:HOME/.bin:LOCALBASE/sbin:LOCALBASE/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:HOME/blah/bin And it doesn't show anything when there are no arguments, not even returning with exit code > 0. $ man # man.sh $ man # gnu man What manual page do you want? zsh: exit 1 man > It's a slightly different heuristic than the existing man > implementation since I don't support the notion of MANPATH_MAP. > Here's the order: > > Default manpaths (/usr/share/man:/usr/share/openssl/man:/usr/local/ > man) > Parse $PATH (path/man:path/MAN:(if ending in /bin)path/../man) > Parse config files
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