(I've CC'd discuss@ as I think my reply may be useful to others.)
You are more than welcome to file a bug/rfe yourself, if you like. :-)
That said, have you tried using man -k instead of searching via grep?
Also, in the future, a new version of the indexer will support richer
indexing of the man pages, backed by a SQLite database. I'm not ready to
integrate that stuff yet, but I think that might be a better solution
longer term.
Shorter term, you can probably write a few line script to generate the cat
pages with mandoc. Here's my attempt at it (its not perfect because it
doesn't understand links so wastes some disk space, but you get the idea):
FORCE=
FMT="mandoc -Tascii"
formatman() {
while read man
do
file=${man##*/}
mandir=${man%/*}
catdir=${mandir//man([0-9])/cat\1}
[[ -n $FORCE || ! -f ${catdir}/${file} ]] && \
$FMT $man > ${catdir}/${file}
done
}
find /usr/share/man -print | formatman
Feel free to share above script if it helps anyone else. Probably the last
line should also look at $MANPATH instead of /usr/share/man... :-)
- Garrett
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 12:41 PM, Volker A. Brandt <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Garrett!
>
>
> > * Support for preformatted man pages is removed.
>
> This is unfortunate. I use preformatted pages a lot, mostly
> to grep then for phrases or keywords. However, I am not sure if
> this is a compelling argument, so I have kept my mouth shut during
> the discussion.
>
> > (If someone really wants this to come
> > back, please let me know -- I can probably write new code to
> > add it back if there is a compelling argument in favor of it.)
>
> I would not presume on your time, so I have a different suggestion:
> Why not file a bug (or a RFE) and have someone else write the
> code? It might even be me if I ever find some time myself... :-(
>
> Feel free to go to the mailing list with this if you agree that it
> is an avenue worth pursuing.
>
>
> Thanks -- Volker
> --
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