Re: zshall.1

[Zvi Har'El <rl@math.technion.ac.il>]

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I don't know better how people use it, but the usage has to be consistent.
If you install your zsh as zsh-dev, and man zsh-dev, man zsh-devoptions etc
all give you the new manual page, man zsh-devall should do the same!

On 10/24/05, Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com> wrote:
>
> "Zvi Har'El" wrote:
> > Dear Zsh Hackers,
> >
> > The configure option --program-suffix and her sisters are quite useful,
> since
> > they enable me to maintain an up-to-the-minute developement version on a
> live
> > system, under the name (say) zsh-dev, and it is easy to switch to it
> using
> > exec - zsh-dev, etc. (as long as you set export SHELL=$ZSH_NAME in your
> > .zprofile). Also commands like man zsh-dev and man zsh-devoptions etc.
> work
> > nicely. However, there is a problem with man zsh-devall: since zshall.1
> > contains the lines
> >
> > .so man1/zshmisc.1
> >...
>
> I'm not sure what use people put the --program-suffix option to; it's
> possibly they expect to be able to rename the files to the base programme
> and have everything work, in which case zshall.1 would need to be the
> way it is. But if it's usually used the way you do, then certainly
> the naming in zshall is wrong.
>
> pws
>
>
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