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To: alcortes@coitt.es, 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] first capital letter in function names at man pages, why?
From: Gorka Guardiola Múzquiz <paurea@lsub.org>
Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 14:30:55 +0200
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> 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.