Everyone seems to have their favorite order for PATH. People seldom seem to remember to make the corresponding changes to MANPATH.
How much resistance would one encounter if the following logic was used? Compare to http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/onnv/onnv-gate/usr/src/cmd/man/src/man.c#311. if ( (manpath = getenv("MANPATH")) == NULL ) { if ( (path = getenv("PATH")) != NULL ) { /* for each PATH component * if component ends in /bin or /sbin * replace bin or sbin with man * append to manpath */ } else { manpath = MANDIR; } } This would have the effect of making the default path searched by man to simply follow the directory order specified by PATH. There may be a desire to remove duplicates, but I am not sure how important that really is (would make -k and -l cleaner). This would change the behavior documented in the man page. -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
