From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 19:20:26 +0200 From: Alberto Cortes To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] first capital letter in function names at man pages, why? Message-ID: <20040520172026.GB3173@shire> References: <20040520145925.GA2276@shire> <7359f04904052008222b1ec778@mail.gmail.com> <20040520155317.GD2522@shire> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8146a030-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Thu, 20 May 2004 12:44:56 +0000, Russ Cox wrote: > The real problem is the impedance mismatch between > the relative case-insensitivity of English convention and the > case-sensitivity of most Unix tools. It occurs when editing > any English text (or text in most other western languages), > not just man pages. Patching the man pages is a kludge. I see the problem, i will give a try on these "meaning-searching" instead of the traditional "patron-searching". i will modify the Look command to be case-insensitive on the first letter of the word, and use it just for fun during a test period. Maybe it will be good to make other changes too, not just the capital first letter, but searching for meanings is hard to implement properly. I hate when i hit these computer-are-no-good-for-that problems. -- url: http://montoya.aig.uc3m.es/~acortes/index.html