bytevolc...@safe-mail.net wrote on Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 10:30:35AM +1000: > Another issue with the man pages is that there is extremely limited > indexing.
That isn't true on OpenBSD. It still is true on most Linux distributions, and even on FreeBSD by default, but at least FreeBSD has an option to enable OpenBSD-quality indexing. It also isn't true on NetBSD, though there, it works in a completely different way than here (no semantic indexing, but flat full-text search). > $ apropos -i EXDEV > apropos: nothing appropriate schwarze@isnote $ apropos Er=EXDEV intro, errno(2) - introduction to system calls and error numbers link, linkat(2) - make hard link to a file rename, renameat(2) - change the name of a file > Either I am doing something wrong here, or the indexing is junk. The former. You failed to read manual pages. The apropos utility does not have a -i option, but it does support searching for error numbers, as documented in apropos(1). The indexing is NOT junk.
