man

Denys Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Sun Sep 14 21:31:33 UTC 2008


On Sunday 14 September 2008 20:29, Vladimir Dronnikov wrote:
> Noticed some quirks in BB man:
> 
> * why do we require arguments ("-1") when -a or -w is given? To show
> paths should require no arguments! Right?

-a requres argument, this is correct.
As for -w, I would categorize it as "we only support "-w manpage" yet":

# /usr/bin/man --help
man, version 1.6c
usage: man [-adfhktwW] [section] [-M path] [-P pager] [-S list]
        [-m system] [-p string] name ...
  a : find all matching entries
...
  w : print location of man page(s) that would be displayed
      (if no name given: print directories that would be searched)
...

There are lots of options we do not support, "-w without manpage"
case is only one of many.

> * why a sane default of /usr/share/man is not used in the absence of
> both /etc/man.conf and $MANPATH? IMO man could be zero-configured.
> 
> * why unconditionally notify of missing /etc/man.conf?

Fixed.
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vda




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