On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 10:56 AM, Robert Elz <k...@munnari.oz.au> wrote: > Date: Sat, 13 May 2017 10:39:49 +0530 > From: Abhinav Upadhyay <er.abhinav.upadh...@gmail.com> > Message-ID: > <CAHwRYJngr_QhFdyH4pDSWQThWHcX5bCjzM7poEQy5OSf_M=7...@mail.gmail.com> > > | I would have to fire the query on each of them and combine the results. > > The combining part is probably not so important... The kind of user > who is doing a query like "I am trying to find out how to tie my > shoelaces, which man page should I read for that?" (who would normally > only care about the man pages from the system they use) but rather for > the user who wants to write portable code, and wants to call the > shoelace(O_TIE) function. but wants to write it in a portable way, > so would like to check to make sure all the relevant systems have > the shoelace() function call, and that they all treat the O_TIE > option the same way... > > For that, just listing them as: > > From NetBSD-current: > result1 > result2 > > From FreeBSD-11.0 > result1 > result2 > > (etc) would be good enough.
I have added something along those lines: http://man-k.org/whatis I didn't want to change the dropdown in the main search page to a checkbox based one, therefore put this on a page of its own. I will try to provide a hyperlink to it from the main page. (The UI might look a bit ugly but I hope someone will come along and help out with CSS :)) - Abhinav