From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3155 invoked from network); 31 Aug 1998 14:17:40 -0000 Received: from math.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 31 Aug 1998 14:17:40 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by math.gatech.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id KAA17524; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 10:09:16 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 10:05:31 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <19980831160817.A10860@math.fu-berlin.de> Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 16:08:17 +0200 From: Sven Guckes To: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu Subject: Re: 'man' completion vs whatis database Mail-Followup-To: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Stephen Riehm on Mon, Aug 31, 1998 at 10:57:41AM +0200 X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/ X-Editor: Vim http://www.vim.org/ X-Info: http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/ Resent-Message-ID: <"WgTcO1.0.WF4.hsgwr"@math> Resent-From: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1777 X-Loop: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu 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