On Sat, Jun 25, 2016 at 04:06:41PM -0600, Andy Bradford wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Using OpenBSD 5.8-stable.
>
> I used to have the following in /etc/man.conf:
>
> tcl85 /usr/local/lib/tcl/tcl8.5/man/
> tcl86 /usr/local/lib/tcl/tcl8.6/man/
>
> Which made it easy to view one or the other by using the section
> argument:
>
> man tcl85 Tcl
> man tcl86 Tcl
>
> man(1) still appears to be documented to have this functionality:
>
> man [-acfhklw] [-C file] [-I os=name] [-K encoding] [-M path] [-m path]
> [-O option=value] [-S subsection] [-s section] [-T output] [-W level]
> [section] name ...
> ^^^^^^^^^
>
> But I see no way of expressing it in the new man.conf or addressing it
> in the command line. Here is what I have added according to the new
> man.conf(5):
>
> manpath /usr/local/lib/tcl/tcl8.5/man
> manpath /usr/local/lib/tcl/tcl8.6/man
>
> But I don't see how to use [section] anymore. man(1) does mention using
> [-s section] with n as the section, but that only seems to display the
> first match of tcl8.5 and does not allow further granularity (as far as
> I can tell).
>
> Have I missed something in the man pages, or what am I doing wrong?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andy
hi.
i don;t think it's currently possible to do exactly what you propose. i
think ingo stripped man.conf pretty bare.
the workarounds would be:
- have multiple conf files and use man -C to get the one you want
- use man -m on the command line (or aliases) to get what you want
i think man(1) is currently wrong regarding the section values in -s
(i'll look into that).
jmc
