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`man acme' might have been a good guess.  `lookman tab stop' would
also have led you to the right pages.  Even `lookman tab width' would
have led you to acme(1).

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> You don't even have to do that; you can just type
>
> 	lookman word
>
> Thus `lookman tabstop' yields:
>
> man 1 0intro # 0intro(1)
> man 1 acme # acme(1)
> man 2 html # html(2)

The problem is that I did not know that I must look for
'tabstop' until I looked into the source and then I didn't
need the man.

I tried 

man rio
man sam
man window

read the pages through and didn't find a single mention
of the way tab widths can be adjusted. I realize now that
grep'ing /sys/man/*/* with '[^a-z]tab' would bring the
answer, but I realize it only when I know already what
to look for. I didn't have the right question before I knew
the answer.

David
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