On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 01:52:50PM -0400, Thomas E. Dickey wrote: > I'm looking into it now. I see another problem in man_db.renames - > > menu_new.3x new.3menu > mitem_new.3x menu_new.3menu > > Having the same "menu_new" on both sides in a different line will > certainly make make_sed.sh do something wrong. Perhaps changing the > "menu_" to "menuitem_" would work better. There are seven files that > would change if we did that.
> However, most of the manpages in /usr/share/man seem to follow a similar > scheme. Before I added the scripting to ncurses, I recall some huge > perl script that was used in Debian (which didn't work as well as my > script). Similar to the renamed ones, you mean? It seems like it'd be simpler to give a manpage describing a group of functions the name of one of the functions, with appropriate symlinks for the others. I'd put the man page on just new_item and free_item, and give it a title of "new_item, free_item - <do x>". Then we don't have the confusing new(3MENU) and new(3FORM). I don't know how many people look at these man pages via the filename or the entry in NAME. I bet most people do it via the function names. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery, LLC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
