From 586d9c5122c9adb8da1eac27d93045e4851ccf60 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2011 22:37:16 +0000
Subject: Support leading, trailing and double colons in MANPATH to prepend,
 append or insert the man.conf(5) default path; compatible with GNU
 manpath(1), implementation by kristaps@, heavily tweaked by schwarze@.

Updates to MANPATH documentation applied to whatis.1, apropos.1, and
catman.8 also.
---
 whatis.1 | 17 ++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

(limited to 'whatis.1')

diff --git a/whatis.1 b/whatis.1
index 8ade7f45..5afba2a6 100644
--- a/whatis.1
+++ b/whatis.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$Id: whatis.1,v 1.4 2011/12/12 02:00:49 schwarze Exp $
+.\"	$Id: whatis.1,v 1.5 2011/12/24 22:37:16 kristaps Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2011 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
 .\"
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
 .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: December 12 2011 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: December 24 2011 $
 .Dt WHATIS 1
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -111,11 +111,22 @@ as follows:
 .Sh ENVIRONMENT
 .Bl -tag -width Ds
 .It Ev MANPATH
-Colon-separated paths overriding the default list of paths searched for
+Colon-separated paths modifying the default list of paths searched for
 manual databases.
 Invalid paths, or paths without manual databases, are ignored.
 Overridden by
 .Fl M .
+If
+.Ev MANPATH
+begins with a
+.Sq \&: ,
+it is appended to the default list;
+else if it ends with
+.Sq \&: ,
+it is prepended to the default list; else if it contains
+.Sq \&:: ,
+the default list is inserted between the colons.
+If none of these conditions are met, it overrides the default list.
 .El
 .Sh FILES
 .Bl -tag -width "/etc/man.conf" -compact
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