From: Gorka Guardiola Múzquiz <paurea@lsub.org>
To: alcortes@coitt.es, 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] first capital letter in function names at man pages, why?
Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 14:30:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0dd54daf794c9e1bb371e79102c0068a@plan9.escet.urjc.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040521122306.GB1759@shire>
> When i am looking for where in a man page is the function "foobar"
> explained, i don't want to care about if it is written with the first
> letter in capitals, or if it has been sliced in half by an hyphenation
> or if it has been pluralised... the computer should deal with these
> problems, not me.
As I said before, I don't think function names get pluralized or hyphenated,
so the solution is really simple.
Anyway, there be dragons. You are the only one who knows what you are looking
for. If not, next you'll want Lookw to understand latex or troff commands, to translate
url escaping... Better keeping things simple and general (working by intersection, not
union).
G.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-21 12:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-20 14:59 [9fans] first capital letter in function names at man pages ¿why? Alberto Cortes
2004-05-20 15:22 ` Rob Pike
2004-05-20 15:53 ` [9fans] first capital letter in function names at man pages, why? Alberto Cortes
2004-05-20 16:44 ` Russ Cox
2004-05-20 17:20 ` Alberto Cortes
2004-05-20 17:31 ` rog
2004-05-20 17:43 ` Alberto Cortes
2004-05-20 17:50 ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2004-05-21 17:20 ` Joel Salomon
2004-05-21 17:46 ` boyd, rounin
2004-05-21 18:11 ` Jason Gurtz
2004-05-21 18:21 ` boyd, rounin
2004-05-20 17:53 ` rog
2004-05-20 17:54 ` Alberto Cortes
2004-05-21 10:28 ` Gorka Guardiola Múzquiz
2004-05-21 10:29 ` Dave Lukes
2004-05-21 10:57 ` Alberto Cortes
2004-05-21 11:04 ` Gorka Guardiola Múzquiz
2004-05-21 12:23 ` Alberto Cortes
2004-05-21 12:30 ` Gorka Guardiola Múzquiz [this message]
2004-05-21 12:48 ` Alberto Cortes
2004-05-21 14:25 ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2004-05-21 14:34 ` Alberto Cortes
2004-05-21 14:27 ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2004-05-21 14:44 ` splite
2004-05-21 15:24 ` boyd, rounin
2004-05-21 15:29 ` Fco. J. Ballesteros
2004-05-21 16:23 ` Alberto Cortes
2004-05-21 14:50 ` boyd, rounin
2004-05-21 15:57 ` boyd, rounin
2004-05-24 2:10 ` Micah Stetson
2004-05-24 2:38 ` Greg Pavelcak
2004-05-24 3:47 ` Eric KD5UWL
2004-05-24 15:46 ` boyd, rounin
2004-05-24 22:33 ` Micah Stetson
2004-05-21 14:22 ` boyd, rounin
2004-05-20 20:43 ` vdharani
2004-05-20 18:18 ` boyd, rounin
2004-05-20 18:07 ` boyd, rounin
2004-05-20 18:20 ` rog
2004-05-20 23:34 ` Brantley Coile
2004-05-20 17:02 ` Rob Pike
2004-05-21 9:01 ` [9fans] first capital letter i Douglas A. Gwyn
2004-05-21 15:34 ` Rob Pike
2004-05-20 16:57 ` [9fans] first capital letter infunction names at man pages ¿why? matt lawless
2004-05-20 17:58 ` boyd, rounin
2004-05-20 18:09 ` Russ Cox
2004-05-20 18:42 [9fans] first capital letter in function names at man pages, why? rog
2004-05-20 19:21 ` Scott Schwartz
2004-05-20 20:07 ` boyd, rounin
2004-05-21 14:05 ` rog
2004-05-21 15:12 ` boyd, rounin
2004-05-21 16:25 ` rog
2004-05-21 0:36 dmr
2004-05-21 0:50 ` George Michaelson
2004-05-21 0:59 ` Rob Pike
2004-05-21 2:13 ` boyd, rounin
2004-05-21 5:33 ` Taj Khattra
2004-05-21 15:35 ` Anastasopoulos S
2004-05-21 16:02 ` boyd, rounin
2004-05-22 0:57 ` ron minnich
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