On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 12:56:28PM +0200, Tanguy Ortolo wrote:
> This is just an idea of a feature that may be useful. Manpages are often
> refered to with this syntax: subject(section). For instance, tree(1)
> has a “SEE ALSO” section that refers to ls(1).
>
> Now, the command man used the following syntax to load a manpage from a
> specific section:
> % man section subject
> For instance:
> % man 1 ls
>
> It may be useful to also accept the following syntax:
> % man subject(section)
> For instance:
> % man ls(1)
This is always going to be unwieldy in a Bourne-style shell, though:
$ man ls(1)
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
Is it still worth it if you have to go to the effort of quoting it
anyway?
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