=================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/mandoc/apropos.1,v retrieving revision 1.28 retrieving revision 1.51 diff -u -p -r1.28 -r1.51 --- mandoc/apropos.1 2014/04/18 10:30:37 1.28 +++ mandoc/apropos.1 2020/10/01 22:50:00 1.51 @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ -.\" $Id: apropos.1,v 1.28 2014/04/18 10:30:37 schwarze Exp $ +.\" $Id: apropos.1,v 1.51 2020/10/01 22:50:00 schwarze Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2011, 2012 Kristaps Dzonsons -.\" Copyright (c) 2011, 2012, 2014 Ingo Schwarze +.\" Copyright (c) 2011,2012,2014,2017,2018 Ingo Schwarze .\" .\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any .\" purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above @@ -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: October 1 2020 $ .Dt APROPOS 1 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ .Nd search manual page databases .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm +.Op Fl afk .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, @@ -50,23 +51,56 @@ searches for .Xr makewhatis 8 databases in the default paths stipulated by .Xr man 1 -and uses case-insensitive substring matching -.Pq the Cm = No operator +and uses case-insensitive extended regular expression matching 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. +If the standard output is a terminal device and +.Fl c +is not specified, use +.Xr less 1 +to paginate them. +In +.Fl a +mode, the options +.Fl IKOTW +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. +.It Fl k +Support the full +.Ar expression +syntax. +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 @@ -88,7 +122,7 @@ Restrict the search to pages for the specified .Xr machine 1 architecture. .Ar arch -is case insensitive. +is case-insensitive. By default, pages for all architectures are shown. .It Fl s Ar section Restrict the search to the specified section of the manual. @@ -98,6 +132,14 @@ See for a listing of sections. .El .Pp +The options +.Fl chlw +are also supported and are documented in +.Xr man 1 . +The options +.Fl fkl +are mutually exclusive and override each other. +.Pp An .Ar expression consists of search terms joined by logical operators @@ -138,10 +180,10 @@ This has syntax .Sm off .Oo .Op Ar key Op , Ar key ... -.Pq Cm = | ~ +.Pq Cm = | \(ti .Oc -.Ar val -.Sm on , +.Ar val , +.Sm on where .Ar key is an @@ -155,8 +197,8 @@ for a list of available keys. Operator .Cm = evaluates a substring, while -.Cm ~ -evaluates a regular expression. +.Cm \(ti +evaluates a case-sensitive extended regular expression. .It Fl i Ar term If .Ar term @@ -165,12 +207,12 @@ is evaluated case-insensitively. Has no effect on substring terms. .El .Pp -.Nm whatis -considers an -.Ar expression -to consist of an opaque keyword. +Results are sorted first according to the section number in ascending +numerical order, then by the page name in ascending +.Xr ascii 7 +alphabetical order, case-insensitive. .Pp -Results are sorted by manual sections and names, with output formatted as +Each output line is formatted as .Pp .D1 name[, name...](sec) \- description .Pp @@ -269,25 +311,65 @@ Text production: .It Li \&Ox Ta Ox No version reference .It Li \&Dx Ta Dx No version reference .El +.Pp +In general, macro keys are supposed to yield complete results without +expecting the user to consider actual macro usage. +For example, results include: +.Pp +.Bl -tag -width 3n -offset 3n -compact +.It Li \&Fa +function arguments appearing on +.Ic \&Fn +lines +.It Li \&Fn +function names marked up with +.Ic \&Fo +macros +.It Li \&In +include file names marked up with +.Ic \&Fd +macros +.It Li \&Vt +types appearing as function return types and +.It \& +types appearing in function arguments in the SYNOPSIS +.El .Sh ENVIRONMENT -.Bl -tag -width MANPATH +.Bl -tag -width MANPAGER +.It Ev MANPAGER +Any non-empty value of the environment variable +.Ev MANPAGER +is used instead of the standard pagination program, +.Xr less 1 ; +see +.Xr man 1 +for details. +Only used if +.Fl a +or +.Fl l +is specified. .It Ev MANPATH -The standard search path used by +A colon-separated list of directories to search for manual pages; see .Xr man 1 -may be changed by specifying a path in the -.Ev MANPATH -environment variable. -Invalid paths, or paths without manual databases, are ignored. +for details. Overridden by -.Fl M . -If -.Ev MANPATH -begins with a colon, it is appended to the default list; -if it ends with a colon, it is prepended to the default list; -or if it contains two adjacent colons, -the standard search path is inserted between the colons. -If none of these conditions are met, it overrides the -standard search path. +.Fl M , +ignored if +.Fl l +is specified. +.It Ev PAGER +Specifies the pagination program to use when +.Ev MANPAGER +is not defined. +If neither PAGER nor MANPAGER is defined, +.Xr less 1 +is used. +Only used if +.Fl a +or +.Fl l +is specified. .El .Sh FILES .Bl -tag -width "/etc/man.conf" -compact @@ -307,7 +389,7 @@ Search for .Qq .cf as a substring of manual names and descriptions: .Pp -.Dl $ apropos .cf +.Dl $ apropos =.cf .Pp Include matches for .Qq .cnf @@ -315,12 +397,16 @@ and .Qq .conf as well: .Pp -.Dl $ apropos .cf .cnf .conf +.Dl $ apropos =.cf =.cnf =.conf .Pp -Search in names and descriptions using a regular expression: +Search in names and descriptions using a case-sensitive regular expression: .Pp -.Dl $ apropos '~set.?[ug]id' +.Dl $ apropos \(aq\(tiset.?[ug]id\(aq .Pp +Search for all manual pages in a given section: +.Pp +.Dl $ apropos \-s 9 \&. +.Pp Search for manuals in the library section mentioning both the .Qq optind and the @@ -330,30 +416,56 @@ variables: .Dl $ apropos \-s 3 Va=optind \-a Va=optarg .Pp Do exactly the same as calling -.Xr whatis 1 +.Nm whatis with the argument .Qq ssh : .Pp -.Dl $ apropos \-\- \-i 'Nm~[[:<:]]ssh[[:>:]]' +.Dl $ apropos \-\- \-i \(aqNm\(ti[[:<:]]ssh[[:>:]]\(aq .Pp The following two invocations are equivalent: .Pp .D1 Li $ apropos -S Ar arch Li -s Ar section expression .Bd -ragged -offset indent .Li $ apropos \e( Ar expression Li \e) -.Li -a arch~^( Ns Ar arch Ns Li |any)$ -.Li -a sec~^ Ns Ar section Ns Li $ +.Li -a arch\(ti^( Ns Ar arch Ns Li |any)$ +.Li -a sec\(ti^ Ns Ar section Ns Li $ .Ed .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr man 1 , .Xr re_format 7 , .Xr makewhatis 8 +.Sh STANDARDS +The +.Nm +utility is compliant with the +.St -p1003.1-2008 +specification of +.Xr man 1 +.Fl k . +.Pp +All options, the +.Nm whatis +command, support for logical operators, macro keys, +substring matching, sorting of results, the environment variables +.Ev MANPAGER +and +.Ev MANPATH , +the database format, and the configuration file +are extensions to that specification. .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 +485,27 @@ and and .Fl s in -.Ox 4.5 . +.Ox 4.5 +for +.Nm +and in +.Ox 5.6 +for +.Nm whatis . +The options +.Fl acfhIKklOTWw +appeared in +.Ox 5.7 . .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