=================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/mandoc/apropos.1,v retrieving revision 1.28 retrieving revision 1.31 diff -u -p -r1.28 -r1.31 --- mandoc/apropos.1 2014/04/18 10:30:37 1.28 +++ mandoc/apropos.1 2014/08/21 02:28:40 1.31 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $Id: apropos.1,v 1.28 2014/04/18 10:30:37 schwarze Exp $ +.\" $Id: apropos.1,v 1.31 2014/08/21 02:28:40 schwarze Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2011, 2012 Kristaps Dzonsons .\" Copyright (c) 2011, 2012, 2014 Ingo Schwarze @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: April 18 2014 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: August 21 2014 $ .Dt APROPOS 1 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ .Nd search manual page databases .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm +.Op Fl afkw .Op Fl C Ar file .Op Fl M Ar path .Op Fl m Ar path @@ -41,7 +42,7 @@ utilities query manual page databases generated by evaluating .Ar expression for each file in each database. -By default, it displays the names, section numbers, and description lines +By default, they display the names, section numbers, and description lines of all matching manuals. .Pp By default, @@ -56,17 +57,50 @@ over manual names and descriptions .Pq the Li \&Nm No and Li \&Nd No macro keys . Multiple terms imply pairwise .Fl o . +.Pp .Nm whatis -maps terms only to case-sensitive manual names. +is a synonym for +.Nm +.Fl f . .Pp -Its arguments are as follows: +The options are as follows: .Bl -tag -width Ds +.It Fl a +Instead of showing only the title lines, show the complete manual pages, +just like +.Xr man 1 +.Fl a +would. +In this mode, the options +.Fl IOTW +described in the +.Xr mandoc 1 +manual are also available. .It Fl C Ar file Specify an alternative configuration .Ar file in .Xr man.conf 5 format. +.It Fl f +Search for all words in +.Ar expression +in manual page names only. +The search is case insensitive and matches whole words only. +In this mode, macro keys, comparison operators, and logical operators +are not available. +This overrides any earlier +.Fl k +option. +.It Fl k +Support the full +.Ar expression +syntax. +This overrides any earlier +.Fl f +option. +It is the default for +.Nm . .It Fl M Ar path Use the colon-separated path instead of the default list of paths searched for @@ -96,6 +130,12 @@ By default, pages from all sections are shown. See .Xr man 1 for a listing of sections. +.It Fl w +Instead of showing title lines, show the pathnames of the matching +manual pages, just like +.Xr man 1 +.Fl w +would. .El .Pp An @@ -140,8 +180,8 @@ This has syntax .Op Ar key Op , Ar key ... .Pq Cm = | ~ .Oc -.Ar val -.Sm on , +.Ar val , +.Sm on where .Ar key is an @@ -165,11 +205,6 @@ is evaluated case-insensitively. Has no effect on substring terms. .El .Pp -.Nm whatis -considers an -.Ar expression -to consist of an opaque keyword. -.Pp Results are sorted by manual sections and names, with output formatted as .Pp .D1 name[, name...](sec) \- description @@ -349,11 +384,19 @@ The following two invocations are equivalent: .Xr re_format 7 , .Xr makewhatis 8 .Sh HISTORY -An +Part of the functionality of +.Nm whatis +was already provided by the former +.Nm manwhere +utility in +.Bx 1 . +The .Nm -utility first appeared in +and +.Nm whatis +utilities first appeared in .Bx 2 . -It was rewritten from scratch for +They were rewritten from scratch for .Ox 5.6 . .Pp The @@ -373,13 +416,23 @@ and and .Fl s in -.Ox 4.5 . +.Ox 4.5 +for +.Nm +and in +.Ox 5.6 +for +.Nm whatis . .Sh AUTHORS .An -nosplit .An Bill Joy -wrote the original +wrote +.Nm manwhere +in 1977 and the original .Bx .Nm +and +.Nm whatis in February 1979. The current version was written by .An Kristaps Dzonsons Aq Mt kristaps@bsd.lv