From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1109 invoked from network); 31 Aug 1998 09:06:40 -0000 Received: from math.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 31 Aug 1998 09:06:40 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by math.gatech.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id EAA13736; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 04:59:16 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 04:55:27 -0400 (EDT) X-Lotus-FromDomain: PC-PLUS From: "Stephen Riehm" To: guckes@math.fu-berlin.de cc: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu Message-ID: Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 10:57:41 +0200 Subject: Re: 'man' completion Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Resent-Message-ID: <"-36kQ.0.ML3._Jcwr"@math> Resent-From: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1776 X-Loop: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu 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" 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]