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| author |   Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv> | 2012-03-24 01:54:43 +0000 |
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| committer | Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv> | 2012-03-24 01:54:43 +0000 |
| commit | 096b9eb1745c1bb9b8ca952d36f335f066bda384 (patch) | |
| tree | b39a526f811fbaa4a8d3af635266d1f4c08a4e9a /whatis.1 | |
| parent | 88f15230be7f66fcbb0009b5e966bad9b4f425c9 (diff) | |
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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ -.\" $Id: whatis.1,v 1.7 2011/12/25 19:35:44 kristaps Exp $ +.\" $Id: whatis.1,v 1.8 2012/03/24 01:54:43 kristaps Exp $ .\" -.\" Copyright (c) 2011 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv> +.\" Copyright (c) 2011, 2012 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv> .\" .\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any .\" purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above @@ -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 25 2011 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: March 24 2012 $ .Dt WHATIS 1 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -47,6 +47,8 @@ searches for .Xr mandocdb 8 databases in the default paths stipulated by .Xr man 1 . +If standard output is a TTY, a result may be selected from a list and +its manual displayed with the pager. .Pp The options are as follows: .Bl -tag -width Ds @@ -95,13 +97,21 @@ If an architecture is specified for the manual, it is displayed as .Pp .D1 title(cat/arch) \- description .Pp -Resulting manuals may be accessed as +If on a TTY, results are prefixed with a numeric identifier. .Pp -.Dl $ man \-s sec title +.D1 [index] title(cat) \- description .Pp -If an architecture is specified in the output, use -.Pp -.Dl $ man \-s sec \-S arch title +One may choose a manual be entering the index at the prompt. +Valid choices are displayed using +.Ev MANPAGER , +or failing that , +.Ev PAGER +or just +.Xr more 1 . +Source pages are formatted with +.Xr mandoc 1 ; +preformatted pages with +.Xr cat 1 . .Pp .Nm is identical to running @@ -111,6 +121,14 @@ as follows: .Dl $ apropos -- -i 'Nm~[[:<:]]term[[:>:]]' .Sh ENVIRONMENT .Bl -tag -width Ds +.It Ev MANPAGER +Default pager for manuals. +If this is unset, falls back to +.Ev Pager . +.It Ev PAGER +The second choice for a manual pager. +If this is unset, use +.Xr more 1 . .It Ev MANPATH Colon-separated paths modifying the default list of paths searched for manual databases. |