Re: man completion

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>]

On Sat, May 21, 2022 at 5:57 AM Karel Balej <karelb@gimli.ms.mff.cuni.cz> wrote:
>
> problem was that I was using mandoc instead of man-db as the man
> provider, which however does not provide the manpath command.
>
> This is probably still a bug though, as the comment in _man claims that
> the function assumes either man-db or mandoc is used on Linux.

That really applies only to the structure of the tree and files it
looks for within the path; we don't attempt to reproduce the
functionality of `manpath` itself.  Is there any manpath equivalent
for mandoc?

> > Third, what additional locations should be searched on AIX when -m is
> > not present?  (And does anyone care?)
>
> Judging by the manual [1], probably just the /usr/share/man directory
> structure.

Thanks.