On 3 December 2010 17:56, Colin Watson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 12:24:34PM +0000, Reuben Thomas wrote: >> On 2 December 2010 23:59, Colin Watson <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Just so that I know where to look, what sort of search are you referring >> > to? apropos? man -K? A search in a pager? >> >> Sorry, I meant a search in a pager (in my case, less, though I doubt >> it matters which pager). >> >> However, you make me realise that the only obvious solution is to >> prevent hyphenation, since once the text has been fed to the pager, it >> would have itself to have a search function that understands >> hyphenation in order to work as expected. >> >> Just to make sure, here's an example: if I search for "configuration", >> but an instance of that word has been split across a line as >> "config-\nuration" by groff, then less (or most other pagers) won't >> find that instance. > > OK; have you considered using the --no-hyphenation option to man, then?
Didn't know it existed. That's exactly what I need, thanks. You can close this bug. -- http://rrt.sc3d.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
