=================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/mandoc/man.1,v retrieving revision 1.18 retrieving revision 1.30 diff -u -p -r1.18 -r1.30 --- mandoc/man.1 2016/10/19 22:20:36 1.18 +++ mandoc/man.1 2017/08/09 12:49:04 1.30 @@ -1,9 +1,9 @@ -.\" $Id: man.1,v 1.18 2016/10/19 22:20:36 schwarze Exp $ +.\" $Id: man.1,v 1.30 2017/08/09 12:49:04 schwarze Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1990, 1993 .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. .\" Copyright (c) 2003, 2007, 2008, 2014 Jason McIntyre -.\" Copyright (c) 2010, 2011, 2014, 2015 Ingo Schwarze +.\" Copyright (c) 2010, 2011, 2014-2017 Ingo Schwarze .\" .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without .\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ .\" .\" @(#)man.1 8.2 (Berkeley) 1/2/94 .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: October 19 2016 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: August 9 2017 $ .Dt MAN 1 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -41,16 +41,10 @@ .Nm man .Op Fl acfhklw .Op Fl C Ar file -.Op Fl I Cm os Ns = Ns Ar name -.Op Fl K Ar encoding .Op Fl M Ar path .Op Fl m Ar path -.Op Fl O Ar option Ns = Ns Ar value .Op Fl S Ar subsection -.Op Fl s Ar section -.Op Fl T Ar output -.Op Fl W Ar level -.Op Ar section +.Op Oo Fl s Oc Ar section .Ar name ... .Sh DESCRIPTION The @@ -84,6 +78,18 @@ Copy the manual page to the standard output instead of .Xr more 1 to paginate it. This is done by default if the standard output is not a terminal device. +.Pp +When using +.Fl c , +most terminal devices are unable to show the markup. +To print the output of +.Nm +to the terminal with markup but without using a pager, pipe it to +.Xr ul 1 . +To remove the markup, pipe the output to +.Xr col 1 +.Fl b +instead. .It Fl f A synonym for .Xr whatis 1 . @@ -91,39 +97,12 @@ 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 I Cm os Ns = Ns Ar name -Override the default operating system -.Ar name -for the -.Xr mdoc 7 -.Ic \&Os -and for the -.Xr man 7 -.Ic \&TH -macro. .It Fl h Display only the SYNOPSIS lines of the requested manual pages. Implies .Fl a and .Fl c . -.It Fl K Ar encoding -Specify the input encoding. -The supported -.Ar encoding -arguments are -.Cm us-ascii , -.Cm iso-8859-1 , -and -.Cm utf-8 . -By default, the encoding is automatically detected as described in the -.Xr mandoc 1 -manual. .It Fl k A synonym for .Xr apropos 1 . @@ -133,11 +112,6 @@ an expression can be provided using the syntax describ .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 @@ -149,15 +123,10 @@ No search is done and .Ar file , .Ar path , .Ar section , +.Ar subsection , and -.Ar subsection -are ignored. -This overrides any earlier -.Fl f , -.Fl k , -and .Fl w -options. +are ignored. .It Fl M Ar path Override the list of standard directories which .Nm @@ -184,15 +153,8 @@ the directories specified using the option or the .Ev MANPATH environment variable. -.It Fl O Ar option Ns = Ns Ar value -Comma-separated output options. -For each output format, the available options are described in the -.Xr mandoc 1 -manual. .It Fl S Ar subsection -Restricts the directories that -.Nm -will search to those of a specific +Only show pages for the specified .Xr machine 1 architecture. .Ar subsection @@ -234,53 +196,23 @@ System maintenance and operation commands. .It 9 Kernel internals. .El -.It Fl T Ar output -Select the output format. -The default is -.Cm locale . -The other output modes -.Cm ascii , -.Cm html , -.Cm lint , -.Cm man , -.Cm pdf , -.Cm ps , -.Cm tree , -and -.Cm utf8 -are described in the -.Xr mandoc 1 -manual. -.It Fl W Ar level -Specify the minimum message -.Ar level -to be reported on the standard error output and to affect the exit status. -The -.Ar level -can be -.Cm warning , -.Cm error , -or -.Cm unsupp ; -.Cm all -is an alias for -.Cm warning . -By default, -.Nm -is silent. -See the -.Xr mandoc 1 -manual for details. +.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 w -List the pathnames of the manual pages which -.Nm -would display for the specified -.Ar section -and -.Ar name -combination. +List the pathnames of all matching manual pages instead of displaying +any of them. .El .Pp +The options +.Fl IKOTW +are also supported and are documented in +.Xr mandoc 1 . +The options +.Fl fkl +are mutually exclusive and override each other. +.Pp Guidelines for writing man pages can be found in .Xr mdoc 7 . @@ -290,13 +222,7 @@ for example .Pa cat1/foo.0 and .Pa man1/foo.1 , -exist in the same directory, and at least one of them is selected, -only the newer one is used. -However, if both the -.Fl a -and the -.Fl w -options are specified, both file names are printed. +exist in the same directory, only the unformatted version is used. .Sh ENVIRONMENT .Bl -tag -width MANPATHX .It Ev MACHINE @@ -318,7 +244,7 @@ is case insensitive. .It Ev MANPAGER Any non-empty value of the environment variable .Ev MANPAGER -will be used instead of the standard pagination program, +is used instead of the standard pagination program, .Xr more 1 . If .Xr less 1 @@ -326,17 +252,43 @@ is used, the interactive .Ic :t command can be used to go to the definitions of various terms, for example command line options, command modifiers, internal commands, -and environment variables. +environment variables, function names, preprocessor macros, +.Xr errno 2 +values, and some other emphasized words. +Some terms may have defining text at more than one place. +In that case, the +.Xr less 1 +interactive commands +.Ic t +and +.Ic T +can be used to move to the next and to the previous place providing +information about the term last searched for with +.Ic :t . .It Ev MANPATH The standard search path used by .Nm -may be overridden by specifying a path in the +may be changed by specifying a path in the .Ev MANPATH -environment -variable. +environment variable. The format of the path is a colon .Pq Ql \&: separated list of directories. +Invalid paths are ignored. +Overridden by +.Fl M , +ignored if +.Fl l +is specified. +.Pp +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. .It Ev PAGER Specifies the pagination program to use when .Ev MANPAGER @@ -344,7 +296,12 @@ is not defined. If neither PAGER nor MANPAGER is defined, .Xr more 1 .Fl s -will be used. +is used. +Only used if +.Fl a +or +.Fl l +is specified. .El .Sh FILES .Bl -tag -width /etc/man.conf -compact @@ -353,21 +310,17 @@ default man configuration file .El .Sh EXIT STATUS .Ex -std man +See +.Xr mandoc 1 +for details. .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr apropos 1 , -.Xr intro 1 , -.Xr whatis 1 , +.Xr col 1 , +.Xr mandoc 1 , +.Xr ul 1 , .Xr whereis 1 , -.Xr intro 2 , -.Xr intro 3 , -.Xr intro 4 , -.Xr intro 5 , .Xr man.conf 5 , -.Xr intro 6 , -.Xr intro 7 , -.Xr mdoc 7 , -.Xr intro 8 , -.Xr intro 9 +.Xr mdoc 7 .Sh STANDARDS The .Nm @@ -415,9 +368,23 @@ in .Fl C in .Nx 1.0 ; -and .Fl s and .Fl S in -.Ox 2.3 . +.Ox 2.3 ; +and +.Fl I , +.Fl K , +.Fl l , +.Fl O , +and +.Fl W +in +.Ox 5.7 . +The +.Fl T +option first appeared in +.At III +and was also added in +.Ox 5.7 .