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From: "Stephen Riehm" <sr@pc-plus.de>
To: guckes@math.fu-berlin.de
Cc: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: 'man' completion
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 10:57:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <C1256671.0030F092.00@bavaria3.pc-plus.de> (raw)




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
cc:
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]






             reply	other threads:[~1998-08-31  9:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-08-31  8:57 Stephen Riehm [this message]
1998-08-31 14:08 ` 'man' completion vs whatis database Sven Guckes
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1998-08-26 15:42 Command alias in non-command position Andrej Borsenkow
1998-08-26 16:35 ` Bruce Stephens
1998-08-26 17:36   ` Bart Schaefer
1998-08-27  1:51     ` 'man' completion Gossamer
1998-08-27  9:14       ` Bruce Stephens
1998-08-27 17:09         ` Bart Schaefer
1998-08-28 16:42           ` Sven Guckes
1998-08-28 17:58             ` Bart Schaefer

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