Package: man-db
Version: 2.4.3-5
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/bin/apropos
I give up. There are too many man pages that make apropos ugly.
$ apropos diff|perl -nwle 's/-.*/$l=length $&/e;print if $l>99'
miff (4) 303
mogrify (1) 194
pitchplay (1) 142
r.cost (1grass) 177
r.resamp.rst (1grass) 184
r.sun (1grass) 454
r.surf.fractal (1grass) 321
One cannot continue begging each author to get into line.
Therefore apropos needs a default truncation column, which can be
overridden by $COLUMNS or a command line switch or something.
Else each user must make an alias
myapropos(){apropos $@|colrm ${COLUMNS-80};} or something, not tested.
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