Thus said Ingo Schwarze on Fri, 01 Jul 2016 22:59:16 +0200: > >>> manpath /usr/local/lib/tcl/tcl8.5/man > >>> manpath /usr/local/lib/tcl/tcl8.6/man > > That's not necessarily a good idea; it adds both directories to the > default search path, so you may end up seeing Tcl documentation when > looking for something completely different.
I see. I was just blindly copying the old directories that I had defined in man.conf prior to the upgrade without realizing that they wouldn't have the same effect. The goal was to have both sets of man pages available but allow me to choose which version of the man pages to read from. > Then again, nothing wrong with that if you do indeed want to have both > Tcl dirs searched by default... If I understand it, however, I don't really think it will have the intended effect, and while they would both be searched by default, matches would always come from tcl8.5 and the only time tcl8.6 would match is when there is a difference that exists in tcl8.6 only but not in tcl8.5. > But i also said: > > "So far, there is no noticeable demand -> KISS." True enough. My attempts at retaining prior behavior are certainly not ``noticeable demand.' :-) I'll toy around with shell aliases and see where that goes. Thanks for looking at it. Andy -- TAI64 timestamp: 40000000577dd304
