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RCS file: /cvs/mandoc/apropos.1,v
retrieving revision 1.38
retrieving revision 1.41
diff -u -p -r1.38 -r1.41
--- mandoc/apropos.1	2015/03/30 16:06:14	1.38
+++ mandoc/apropos.1	2017/03/17 17:24:41	1.41
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-.\"	$Id: apropos.1,v 1.38 2015/03/30 16:06:14 schwarze Exp $
+.\"	$Id: apropos.1,v 1.41 2017/03/17 17:24:41 schwarze Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2011, 2012 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
-.\" Copyright (c) 2011, 2012, 2014 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
+.\" Copyright (c) 2011, 2012, 2014, 2017 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
 .\"
 .\" 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: March 30 2015 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: March 17 2017 $
 .Dt APROPOS 1
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -237,8 +237,29 @@ is evaluated case-insensitively.
 Has no effect on substring terms.
 .El
 .Pp
-Results are sorted by manual sections and names, with output formatted as
+Results are sorted according to the following criteria:
+.Bl -enum
+.It
+The manpath directory tree the page is found in, according to the
+order specified with
+.Fl M ,
+.Fl m ,
+the
+.Ev MANPATH
+environment variable, the
+.Xr man.conf 5
+configuration file, or the default documented in
+.Xr man.conf 5 .
+.It
+The section number in ascending numerical order.
+.It
+The page name in ascending
+.Xr ascii 7
+alphabetical order, case-insensitive.
+.El
 .Pp
+Each output line is formatted as
+.Pp
 .D1 name[, name...](sec) \- description
 .Pp
 Where
@@ -365,7 +386,8 @@ Specifies the pagination program to use when
 .Ev MANPAGER
 is not defined.
 If neither PAGER nor MANPAGER is defined,
-.Pa /usr/bin/more Fl s
+.Xr more 1
+.Fl s
 will be used.
 .El
 .Sh FILES
@@ -467,6 +489,10 @@ and in
 .Ox 5.6
 for
 .Nm whatis .
+The options
+.Fl acfhIKklOTWw
+appeared in
+.Ox 5.7 .
 .Sh AUTHORS
 .An -nosplit
 .An Bill Joy