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authorIngo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>2017-03-17 17:24:41 +0000
committerIngo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>2017-03-17 17:24:41 +0000
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Document man(1) section selection priority,
and correct description of apropos(1) output search order. Suggested by tb@.
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.\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1990, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
.\" Copyright (c) 2003, 2007, 2008, 2014 Jason McIntyre <jmc@openbsd.org>
-.\" Copyright (c) 2010, 2011, 2014, 2015 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
+.\" Copyright (c) 2010, 2011, 2014-2017 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
.\"
.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
@@ -234,6 +234,10 @@ System maintenance and operation commands.
.It 9
Kernel internals.
.El
+.Pp
+If not specified and a match is found in more than one section,
+the first match is selected from the following list:
+1, 8, 6, 2, 3, 5, 7, 4, 9, 3p.
.It Fl T Ar output
Select the output format.
The default is