From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Paul Lalonde Subject: Re: [9fans] irc answers - man and memmove Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 17:09:38 -0800 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Topicbox-Message-UUID: b8ba81d2-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 5-Dec-05, at 4:07 AM, Russ Cox wrote: > If you read the pages with man -P, which shows you the typeset > version, these names will be in italics, which should make them > easier for you to recognize as function names. The manual is, > as fgb and man(1) point out, intended to be typeset. Actually, my biggest man page complaint is the capitalization of the symbols at the front of a sentence. I usually B3 to find the particular function I care about, and it is frequently capitalized, breaking the search. Paul