On Sun, Sep 03, 2023 at 08:54:55PM +0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > In addition to that, showing the complete list from man -w would > force man(1) to do additional work, slowing down display of the > manual page. When any of the -w, -a, or -k options is given, man(1) > always searches through the whole MANPATH. By contrast, in standard > mode, i.e. without any of these three options, it ends the search > after the first database that returns a match and displays that > match right away. For example, if you type "man printf", only the > base system manual page database is inspected and you do not have to
How much work is that actually ? I mean with the current database system if you just say "man something" it ought to be fairly quick, no ? (especially with just 3 databases)
