On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 06:48:19PM +0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > Colin Watson wrote on Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 10:06:28AM +0100: > > "man ./apropos.1", as Nate pointed out. man-db's heuristic is that if > > the page name contains a slash then it's surely a path name instead and > > should be treated as such; I think that's a reasonable one. > > Thank you for explaining the heuristic and for pointing out the > missing feature in mandoc. Given the existence of the -l option, > having the heuristic is maybe not absolutely required, but i > agree that it is not unreasonable, and we have seen that the absence > of the heuristic can confuse casual users who are used to man-db. > > So with the commit below, i added the same heuristic to mandoc.
Thanks. > By the way, the old version of man-db in jessie exhibits a strange > behaviour in that case, but probably that has been fixed long ago: > > $ lsb_release -d > Description: Debian GNU/Linux 8.10 (jessie) > $ dpkg-query -l man-db | tail -n 1 > ii man-db 2.7.0.2-5 i386 on-line manual pager > $ man --version > man 2.7.0.2 > $ man -w man ./man.1 > man: man-./man.1: No such file or directory > man: man_./man.1: No such file or directory > /usr/share/man/man1/man.1.gz > ./man.1 This is still incorrect in current versions: man(1)'s command-line parsing is not quite as elegantly well-factored as it ought to be ... I don't quite have time to sort it out just now, but I've filed https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/index.php?53708 so that I don't forget about it. Thanks for the report! -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]
