Messages in this thread | | | From | "Alan Curry" <> | Subject | Re: info format (was Re: Linux 2.2.11pre4) | Date | Sun, 8 Aug 1999 23:01:13 -0500 (EST) |
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Mike A. Harris writes the following: > >[root@asdf /etc]# man -S perl chop >No manual entry for chop > >So, I have yet to see what you're describing. And I'm NOT >playing dumb this time either.
He was not telling you that a chop(3perl) man page already exists, merely that it would only be a few minutes work for someone to convert the perlfunc(1) man page into a set of pages and stick them in section (3perl).
> >[root@asdf /etc]# cd /usr/man/manperl >bash: /usr/man/manperl: No such file or directory
The point was that it is within your power to _create_ /usr/man/manfoo, and put whatever pages you want in it, and then "man foo bar" will work. If the perl man page authors, or any other man page authors, intended them to be read that way, all they have to do is package them that way. No changes needed to the tools. And I think they might even be doing that with an upcoming perl release, since perlfunc(1) has got too big to be read comfortably.
And to the people who think man isn't searchable enough... it just occurred to me that maybe the reason you think that is that you haven't got a decent $PAGER. Give this a chance:
export PAGER=less;export LESS='-s -M -c';man less
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