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author | Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> | 2014-09-14 19:44:28 +0000 |
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committer | Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> | 2014-09-14 19:44:28 +0000 |
commit | c99d0805237ab16252befd6defffabebde81d74b (patch) | |
tree | 77429737b5e960b5729c27a1f0d64020204c8dd9 /man.cgi.8 | |
parent | 2a37145b398147deef315887314495f6a9b9637e (diff) | |
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Support backslash-escaping of white space in the query expression,
to be more similar to apropos(1) called from the shell.
Missing feature reported by Marcus MERIGHI <mcmer dash openbsd at
tor dot at> on misc@.
Diffstat (limited to 'man.cgi.8')
-rw-r--r-- | man.cgi.8 | 10 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $Id: man.cgi.8,v 1.10 2014/08/22 15:49:50 schwarze Exp $ +.\" $Id: man.cgi.8,v 1.11 2014/09/14 19:44:28 schwarze Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2014 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> .\" @@ -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: August 22 2014 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: September 14 2014 $ .Dt MAN.CGI 8 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -43,6 +43,12 @@ either a name of a manual page or an using the syntax described in the .Xr apropos 1 manual; filling this in is required for each search. +.Pp +The expression is broken into words at whitespace. +Whitespace characters and backslashes can be escaped +by prepending a backslash. +The effect of prepending a backslash to another character is undefined; +in the current implementation, it has no effect. .It A .Dq Submit |