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authorIngo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>2014-08-30 18:08:10 +0000
committerIngo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>2014-08-30 18:08:10 +0000
commit24387bf29bff146c16b4c293b9c384cb99730d62 (patch)
treeb30029cd4ba65d447185793fa6821d81fc364d6e /man.1
parent3c2c418ed925503520d69d3b17650956b2324143 (diff)
downloadmandoc-24387bf29bff146c16b4c293b9c384cb99730d62.tar.gz
Introduce a man(1) -l option as an alias for mandoc -a.
Basically, this does the same as man -l in Linux man-db. The point is that now all functionality of the combined tool is reachable from the man(1) command name: apropos = man -k, whatis = man -f, mandoc = man -cl. Originally suggested by Carsten dot Kunze at arcor dot de, current maintainer of the Heirloom Documentation Tools. While here, add various missing information to the usage() and to the manuals.
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@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
.Nd display manual pages
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm man
-.Op Fl acfhkw
+.Op Fl acfhklVw
.Op Fl C Ar file
.Op Fl M Ar path
.Op Fl m Ar path
@@ -91,6 +91,11 @@ It searches for
.Ar name
in manual page names and displays the header lines from all matching pages.
The search is case insensitive and matches whole words only.
+This overrides any earlier
+.Fl k
+and
+.Fl l
+options.
.It Fl h
Display only the
.Dq SYNOPSIS
@@ -104,6 +109,31 @@ an expression can be provided using the syntax described in the
.Xr apropos 1
manual.
By default, it displays the header lines of all matching pages.
+This overrides any earlier
+.Fl f
+and
+.Fl l
+options.
+.It Fl l
+A synonym for
+.Xr mandoc 1
+.Fl a .
+The
+.Ar name
+arguments are interpreted as filenames.
+No search is done and
+.Ar file ,
+.Ar path ,
+.Ar section ,
+and
+.Ar subsection
+are ignored.
+This overrides any earlier
+.Fl f ,
+.Fl k ,
+and
+.Fl w
+options.
.It Fl M Ar path
Override the list of standard directories which
.Nm
@@ -211,6 +241,8 @@ specifies the possible
.Ar section
values, and their search order.
Additional sections may be specified.
+.It Fl V
+Print version and exit.
.It Fl w
List the pathnames of the manual pages which
.Nm