From: Sven Guckes <guckes@math.fu-berlin.de>
To: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: 'man' completion vs whatis database
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 16:08:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19980831160817.A10860@math.fu-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C1256671.0030F092.00@bavaria3.pc-plus.de>; from Stephen Riehm on Mon, Aug 31, 1998 at 10:57:41AM +0200
Quoting Stephen Riehm (sr@pc-plus.de):
> for what it's worth, I used to use the whatis database and grep - this
> of course only works as long as your whatis database is up to date.
Why install a whatis database when your shell can give your the same? ;-)
How much data does a whatis database create?
What's the tradeoff with this, anyway?
Sven
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1998-08-31 8:57 'man' completion Stephen Riehm
1998-08-31 14:08 ` Sven Guckes [this message]
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