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author | Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> | 2016-05-28 13:40:48 +0000 |
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committer | Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> | 2016-05-28 13:40:48 +0000 |
commit | 7956db275a13d70a6b9fb672cf085b78e70f124c (patch) | |
tree | b04cdd4244e09b0b53a2a5ba0ab3bbc57068370b /man.cgi.8 | |
parent | 4d8a52d4066027eb5dd03bbb35164ec6cf9906db (diff) | |
download | mandoc-7956db275a13d70a6b9fb672cf085b78e70f124c.tar.gz |
Simplify search form: minus two visible control elements, minus
one table, minus twenty lines of code, no loss of functionality.
No idea why i didn't do this earlier...
Diffstat (limited to 'man.cgi.8')
-rw-r--r-- | man.cgi.8 | 23 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 14 deletions
@@ -26,9 +26,9 @@ The CGI program searches for manual pages on a WWW server and displays them to HTTP clients, providing functionality equivalent to the -.Xr apropos 1 -and .Xr man 1 +and +.Xr apropos 1 utilities. It can use multiple manual trees in parallel. .Ss HTML search interface @@ -51,20 +51,15 @@ The effect of prepending a backslash to another character is undefined; in the current implementation, it has no effect. .It A -.Dq Submit -button to send a search request from the client to the server. -.It -A -.Dq Reset -button to undo any changes to the input boxes and the dropdown menus -and reset them to the values contained in the -.Ev QUERY_STRING . -.It -Radio buttons to select pages either by name like in .Xr man 1 -or using +submit button. +The string in the input box is interpreted as the name of a manual page. +.It +An .Xr apropos 1 -queries. +submit button. +The string in the input box is interpreted as a search +.Ar expression . .It A dropdown menu to optionally select a manual section. If one is provided, it has the same effect as the |