Module Name: src
Committed By: wiz
Date: Fri Nov 29 23:58:23 UTC 2013
Modified Files:
src/usr.sbin/makemandb: apropos.1 makemandb.8
Log Message:
Wording improvements from Abhinav Upadhyay <er.abhinav.upadh...@gmail.com>
To generate a diff of this commit:
cvs rdiff -u -r1.13 -r1.14 src/usr.sbin/makemandb/apropos.1
cvs rdiff -u -r1.6 -r1.7 src/usr.sbin/makemandb/makemandb.8
Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
copyright notices on the relevant files.
Modified files:
Index: src/usr.sbin/makemandb/apropos.1
diff -u src/usr.sbin/makemandb/apropos.1:1.13 src/usr.sbin/makemandb/apropos.1:1.14
--- src/usr.sbin/makemandb/apropos.1:1.13 Tue Apr 2 18:35:28 2013
+++ src/usr.sbin/makemandb/apropos.1 Fri Nov 29 23:58:23 2013
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: apropos.1,v 1.13 2013/04/02 18:35:28 wiz Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: apropos.1,v 1.14 2013/11/29 23:58:23 wiz Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2011 Abhinav Upadhyay <er.abhinav.upadh...@gmail.com>
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
.\" OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.Dd April 2, 2013
+.Dd November 22, 2013
.Dt APROPOS 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -47,14 +47,13 @@ The
.Nm
utility performs a full text search over the complete content of all man pages.
It uses the FTS engine of Sqlite to perform the search.
-The database is created with the help of
+The database is created with the help of the
.Xr makemandb 8
utility.
.Pp
This implementation of the
.Nm
-utility is more sophisticated than the classical version of
-.Nm .
+utility is more sophisticated than the classical version.
Like modern search applications, it uses advanced techniques like stemming
and term weighting to rank the matching results in decreasing order of
relevance.
Index: src/usr.sbin/makemandb/makemandb.8
diff -u src/usr.sbin/makemandb/makemandb.8:1.6 src/usr.sbin/makemandb/makemandb.8:1.7
--- src/usr.sbin/makemandb/makemandb.8:1.6 Sat Oct 6 15:33:59 2012
+++ src/usr.sbin/makemandb/makemandb.8 Fri Nov 29 23:58:23 2013
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: makemandb.8,v 1.6 2012/10/06 15:33:59 wiz Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: makemandb.8,v 1.7 2013/11/29 23:58:23 wiz Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2011 Abhinav Upadhyay <er.abhinav.upadh...@gmail.com>
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -29,12 +29,13 @@
.\" OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.Dd October 5, 2012
+.Dd November 23, 2013
.Dt MAKEMANDB 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm makemandb
-.Nd parse the manual pages and build a search index over them
+.Nd parse the manual pages and build a search index for
+.Xr apropos 1
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
.Op Fl floQqv
@@ -44,8 +45,8 @@ The
.Nm
utility traverses the directories containing man pages, parses the manual
pages with the help of libmandoc and builds an Sqlite database
-.Pa man.db
-to support full text searches.
+to support full text searches by
+.Xr apropos 1 .
It obtains the list of directories to traverse using the
.Fl Ar path
and
