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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$Id: man.1,v 1.13 2015/02/16 16:23:54 schwarze Exp $
+.\"	$Id: man.1,v 1.21 2017/01/31 19:44:04 schwarze Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1990, 1993
 .\"	The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
 .\"
 .\"     @(#)man.1	8.2 (Berkeley) 1/2/94
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: February 16 2015 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: January 31 2017 $
 .Dt MAN 1
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -69,12 +69,8 @@ machine architecture
 The options are as follows:
 .Bl -tag -width Ds
 .It Fl a
-Display all of the manual pages for a specified
-.Ar section
-and
-.Ar name
-combination.
-Normally, only the first manual page found is displayed.
+Display all matching manual pages.
+Normally, only the first page found is displayed.
 .It Fl C Ar file
 Use the specified
 .Ar file
@@ -100,6 +96,12 @@ This overrides any earlier
 and
 .Fl l
 options.
+.It Fl h
+Display only the SYNOPSIS lines of the requested manual pages.
+Implies
+.Fl a
+and
+.Fl c .
 .It Fl I Cm os Ns = Ns Ar name
 Override the default operating system
 .Ar name
@@ -110,12 +112,6 @@ 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
@@ -173,12 +169,6 @@ must be a colon
 separated list of directories.
 This search path may also be set using the environment variable
 .Ev MANPATH .
-The subdirectories to be searched, and their search order,
-are specified by the
-.Dq _subdir
-line in the
-.Nm
-configuration file.
 .It Fl m Ar path
 Augment the list of standard directories which
 .Nm
@@ -194,12 +184,6 @@ the directories specified using the
 option or the
 .Ev MANPATH
 environment variable.
-The subdirectories to be searched, and their search order,
-are specified by the
-.Dq _subdir
-line in the
-.Nm
-configuration file.
 .It Fl O Ar option Ns = Ns Ar value
 Comma-separated output options.
 For each output format, the available options are described in the
@@ -221,13 +205,9 @@ architecture whilst using another.
 This option overrides the
 .Ev MACHINE
 environment variable.
-.It Xo
-.Op Fl s
-.Ar section
-.Xc
-Restricts the directories that
-.Nm
-will search to a specific section.
+.It Oo Fl s Oc Ar section
+Only select manuals from the specified
+.Ar section .
 The currently available sections are:
 .Pp
 .Bl -tag -width "localXXX" -offset indent -compact
@@ -237,9 +217,7 @@ General commands
 .It 2
 System calls and error numbers.
 .It 3
-Libraries.
-.It 3f
-Fortran programmer's reference guide.
+Library functions.
 .It 3p
 .Xr perl 1
 programmer's reference guide.
@@ -250,30 +228,12 @@ File formats.
 .It 6
 Games.
 .It 7
-Miscellaneous.
+Miscellaneous information.
 .It 8
 System maintenance and operation commands.
 .It 9
 Kernel internals.
-.It X11
-An alias for X11R6.
-.It X11R6
-X Window System.
-.It local
-Pages located in
-.Pa /usr/local .
-.It n
-Tcl/Tk commands.
 .El
-.Pp
-The
-.Nm
-configuration file,
-.Xr man.conf 5 ,
-specifies the possible
-.Ar section
-values, and their search order.
-Additional sections may be specified.
 .It Fl T Ar output
 Select the output format.
 The default is
@@ -360,6 +320,25 @@ Any non-empty value of the environment variable
 .Ev MANPAGER
 will be used instead of the standard pagination program,
 .Xr more 1 .
+If
+.Xr less 1
+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,
+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
@@ -370,18 +349,13 @@ variable.
 The format of the path is a colon
 .Pq Ql \&:
 separated list of directories.
-The subdirectories to be searched, as well as their search order,
-are specified by the
-.Dq _subdir
-line in the
-.Nm
-configuration file.
 .It Ev PAGER
 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
@@ -453,9 +427,23 @@ 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 .