On Sat Sep 11 10, Gordon Tetlow wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 7:41 PM, Alexander Best wrote:
>
> > > Feedback on the man(1), manpath(1), apropos(1), and man.conf(5) manpages
> > > would be appreciated. I'm new to manpage authoring and could use a
> > review.
> >
> > you forgot the AUTHORS secti
Anonymous writes:
> PATH_MAN_SUB bin/../man
> PATH_MAN_SUB bin/../.man # e.g. for ~/.bin + ~/.man
> PATH_MAN_SUB /usr/bin/../share/man
Oops, that would be non-trivial substitution. It's more like
PATH_MAN_ADD bin ../man
PATH_MAN_ADD .bin ../.man
PATH_MAN_ADD /usr/bin ../share/man
A
Stefan Bethke writes:
> Am 11.09.2010 um 09:35 schrieb Gordon Tetlow:
>
>> On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 8:17 PM, Anonymous wrote:
>>
>>> Gordon Tetlow writes:
>>>
2. Imports configuration from /usr/local/etc/man.d/*.conf and
>>> /etc/man.conf
(purposefully changed the manpath.config file
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 7:41 PM, Alexander Best wrote:
> > Feedback on the man(1), manpath(1), apropos(1), and man.conf(5) manpages
> > would be appreciated. I'm new to manpage authoring and could use a
> review.
>
> you forgot the AUTHORS section in all of the man pages. ;) it's always nice
> to
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Anonymous wrote:
> The order is still bogus compared to gnu man. If I don't like our
> ancient GNU tools and altered PATH in order to prefer ones from ports
> then I certainly don't want to view old manpages, too. The base manpath
> should be appended *after* any
Am 11.09.2010 um 09:35 schrieb Gordon Tetlow:
> On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 8:17 PM, Anonymous wrote:
>
>> Gordon Tetlow writes:
>>
>>> 2. Imports configuration from /usr/local/etc/man.d/*.conf and
>> /etc/man.conf
>>> (purposefully changed the manpath.config file since it is a different
>>> syntax
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 8:17 PM, Anonymous wrote:
> Gordon Tetlow writes:
>
> > 2. Imports configuration from /usr/local/etc/man.d/*.conf and
> /etc/man.conf
> > (purposefully changed the manpath.config file since it is a different
> > syntax).
>
> Hmm, and if LOCALBASE != /usr/local? hier(7) doe
Gordon Tetlow writes:
> 2. Imports configuration from /usr/local/etc/man.d/*.conf and /etc/man.conf
> (purposefully changed the manpath.config file since it is a different
> syntax).
Hmm, and if LOCALBASE != /usr/local? hier(7) does not specify /usr/local
as the only place installed packages may
On Thu Sep 9 10, Gordon Tetlow wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Gordon Tetlow wrote:
>
> > All,
> >
> > I sat down and rewrote the man tools from a relatively old codebase to a
> > single shell script. My original motivation was to allow multiple
> > configuration files so port install
On Thu Sep 9 10, Gordon Tetlow wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Gordon Tetlow wrote:
>
> > All,
> >
> > I sat down and rewrote the man tools from a relatively old codebase to a
> > single shell script. My original motivation was to allow multiple
> > configuration files so port install
On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 11:48:37PM +0400, Anonymous wrote:
> Gordon Tetlow writes:
> > Gordon Tetlow writes:
> >> Anonymous writes:
> >>> It doesn't search in bin/../man nor in bin/.man. For example,
> >>> my PATH contains $LOCALBASE/bin:$HOME/.bin, while /etc/
> >>> manpath.config
> >>> is defa
Gordon Tetlow writes:
> Gordon Tetlow writes:
>> Anonymous writes:
>>> It doesn't search in bin/../man nor in bin/.man. For example,
>>> my PATH contains $LOCALBASE/bin:$HOME/.bin, while /etc/
>>> manpath.config
>>> is default one and contains /usr/local/man which does not
>>> exist here.
>>
>>
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Gordon Tetlow wrote:
> All,
>
> I sat down and rewrote the man tools from a relatively old codebase to a
> single shell script. My original motivation was to allow multiple
> configuration files so port installations did not have to mess with
> /etc/manpath.confi
On Wed Aug 18 10, Alexander Best wrote:
> On Wed Aug 18 10, Gordon Tetlow wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > I sat down and rewrote the man tools from a relatively old codebase to a
> > single shell script. My original motivation was to allow multiple
> > configuration files so port installations did not hav
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 11:52 PM, Gordon Tetlow wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Anonymous wrote:
>
>> Gordon Tetlow writes:
>>
>> It doesn't search in bin/../man nor in bin/.man. For example,
>> my PATH contains $LOCALBASE/bin:$HOME/.bin, while /etc/manpath.config
>> is default one an
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Anonymous wrote:
> Gordon Tetlow writes:
>
> It doesn't search in bin/../man nor in bin/.man. For example,
> my PATH contains $LOCALBASE/bin:$HOME/.bin, while /etc/manpath.config
> is default one and contains /usr/local/man which does not exist here.
>
Guess I m
Gordon Tetlow wrote
in :
go> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Gordon Tetlow wrote:
go>
go> > All,
go> >
go> > I sat down and rewrote the man tools from a relatively old codebase to a
go> > single shell script. My original motivation was to allow multiple
go> > configuration files so port inst
Anonymous writes:
> Gordon Tetlow writes:
>
>> I've tried to make this mirror the functionality, directory search order,
>> and arguments as the current base implementation.
>>
>> This brings me to my next point. I need some testers willing to try this
>> out. It would be particularly great if I
Gordon Tetlow writes:
> I've tried to make this mirror the functionality, directory search order,
> and arguments as the current base implementation.
>
> This brings me to my next point. I need some testers willing to try this
> out. It would be particularly great if I could get some foreign lang
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Gordon Tetlow wrote:
> All,
>
> I sat down and rewrote the man tools from a relatively old codebase to a
> single shell script. My original motivation was to allow multiple
> configuration files so port installations did not have to mess with
> /etc/manpath.confi
On Wed Aug 18 10, Gordon Tetlow wrote:
> All,
>
> I sat down and rewrote the man tools from a relatively old codebase to a
> single shell script. My original motivation was to allow multiple
> configuration files so port installations did not have to mess with
> /etc/manpath.config (like perl for
All,
I sat down and rewrote the man tools from a relatively old codebase to a
single shell script. My original motivation was to allow multiple
configuration files so port installations did not have to mess with
/etc/manpath.config (like perl for example) when needing to manipulate the
manpath. Af
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