From: Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
To: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv
Cc: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Being crazy: -Tindex
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 13:22:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D80AB73.5090507@bsd.lv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110316121156.GA14084@britannica.bec.de>
>> I'm accustomed to being able to search for documentation quickly
>> and am not satisfied with apropos, whatis, and man -K.
>
> Neither am I. I have a GSoC project idea for this on NetBSD's idea
> list: http://wiki.netbsd.org/projects/gsoc_2011/apropos/
Hi Joerg,
Unfortunately, I'll have to know more about my student status before
committing to GSoC... hmm...
My thought with whatis, by the way, was to add an option like -Tascii
-Owhatis to display only name(section) - description, then have whatis
crawl the -Tindex database for matching Nm's (you could have whatis hang
from man and query MAN_PATH, but whatis searches for `Nm', not file names).
In terms of apropos and full-text, I used db.h because it's standard on
all BSDs. SQL seems like overkill, as I'd think the usage to be
primarily "look up name-exact, look up name-case-insensitive, look up
name with misspellings".
Either way, an index of stuff (functions, names, etc.) is very useful.
Kristaps
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-16 10:47 Kristaps Dzonsons
2011-03-16 12:11 ` Joerg Sonnenberger
2011-03-16 12:22 ` Kristaps Dzonsons [this message]
2011-03-16 12:37 ` Joerg Sonnenberger
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