Re: 'man' completion

Re: 'man' completion

[Stephen Riehm]

Hi,

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.

Steve




guckes@math.fu-berlin.de on 28.08.98 18:42:31

To:   zsh-users@math.gatech.edu
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Subject:  Re: 'man' completion





Quoting Bart Schaefer (schaefer@brasslantern.com):
> The only missing bit being that if you want to use the section
> number to restrict the search (i.e. "man 5 x<TAB>" completes only
> to "xferlog" and not to "xterm" etc.), then you need a function.

Such as?  ;-)

I presume there must be some non-plus-ultra completion control for "man".
But which *is* the best?

Sven  [hoping to see more of this on this maillist]

Re: 'man' completion vs whatis database

[Sven Guckes]

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