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and subject line Re: Bug#579696: man-db: Search does not find hyphenated words
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regarding man-db: Search does not find hyphenated words
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Package: man-db
Version: 2.5.2-4
Severity: normal
If I search for a word that happens to have been hyphenated, man doesn't find
it.
(I nearly ended up filing a bug against a particular man page because
of this bug!)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.4
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages man-db depends on:
ii bsdmainutils 6.1.10 collection of more utilities from
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.24 Debian configuration management sy
ii dpkg 1.14.29 Debian package management system
ii groff-base 1.18.1.1-21 GNU troff text-formatting system (
ii libc6 2.7-18lenny2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgdbm3 1.8.3-3 GNU dbm database routines (runtime
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime
man-db recommends no packages.
Versions of packages man-db suggests:
ii elinks [www-browser] 0.11.4-3 advanced text-mode WWW browser
pn groff <none> (no description available)
ii iceweasel [www-browser] 3.0.6-3 lightweight web browser based on M
ii less 418-1 Pager program similar to more
ii links [www-browser] 2.1pre37-1.1 Web browser running in text mode
ii w3m [www-browser] 0.5.2-2+b1 WWW browsable pager with excellent
-- debconf information:
man-db/build-database: true
man-db/rebuild-database: true
* man-db/install-setuid: false
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: man-db
Source-Version: 2.5.4-1
On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 08:12:49PM +0000, Reuben Thomas wrote:
> On 3 December 2010 17:56, Colin Watson <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 12:24:34PM +0000, Reuben Thomas wrote:
> >> However, you make me realise that the only obvious solution is to
> >> prevent hyphenation, since once the text has been fed to the pager, it
> >> would have itself to have a search function that understands
> >> hyphenation in order to work as expected.
> >>
> >> Just to make sure, here's an example: if I search for "configuration",
> >> but an instance of that word has been split across a line as
> >> "config-\nuration" by groff, then less (or most other pagers) won't
> >> find that instance.
> >
> > OK; have you considered using the --no-hyphenation option to man, then?
>
> Didn't know it existed. That's exactly what I need, thanks. You can
> close this bug.
OK, thanks for confirming. Closing.
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Colin Watson [[email protected]]
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