From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24240 invoked from network); 23 Aug 2002 22:06:27 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 23 Aug 2002 22:06:27 -0000 Received: (qmail 12253 invoked by alias); 23 Aug 2002 22:06:20 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 17574 Received: (qmail 12234 invoked from network); 23 Aug 2002 22:06:18 -0000 Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 18:06:13 -0400 From: Clint Adams To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk Subject: manpath confusion Message-ID: <20020823220613.GA8623@dman.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) Some people seem to assume that the manpath tie includes an automatic export. Does anyone have better wording? Index: Doc/Zsh/params.yo =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/zsh/zsh/Doc/Zsh/params.yo,v retrieving revision 1.16 diff -u -r1.16 params.yo --- Doc/Zsh/params.yo 5 Aug 2002 12:33:28 -0000 1.16 +++ Doc/Zsh/params.yo 23 Aug 2002 22:04:44 -0000 @@ -849,6 +849,8 @@ whose value is not used by the shell. The tt(manpath) array can be useful, however, since setting it also sets tt(MANPATH), and vice versa. + +Note that MANPATH is not exported automatically. ) vindex(module_path) vindex(MODULE_PATH)