=================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/mandoc/man.1,v retrieving revision 1.30 retrieving revision 1.35 diff -u -p -r1.30 -r1.35 --- mandoc/man.1 2017/08/09 12:49:04 1.30 +++ mandoc/man.1 2019/03/09 15:55:01 1.35 @@ -1,9 +1,9 @@ -.\" $Id: man.1,v 1.30 2017/08/09 12:49:04 schwarze Exp $ +.\" $Id: man.1,v 1.35 2019/03/09 15:55:01 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, 2014-2017 Ingo Schwarze +.\" Copyright (c) 2010, 2011, 2014-2018 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: August 9 2017 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: March 9 2019 $ .Dt MAN 1 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -114,8 +114,7 @@ manual. By default, it displays the header lines of all matching pages. .It Fl l A synonym for -.Xr mandoc 1 -.Fl a . +.Xr mandoc 1 . The .Ar name arguments are interpreted as filenames. @@ -127,6 +126,8 @@ No search is done and and .Fl w are ignored. +This option implies +.Fl a . .It Fl M Ar path Override the list of standard directories which .Nm @@ -217,12 +218,24 @@ Guidelines for writing man pages can be found in .Xr mdoc 7 . .Pp +The +.Xr mandoc.db 5 +database is used for looking up manual page entries. +In cases where the database is absent, outdated, or corrupt, +.Nm +falls back to looking for files called +.Ar name . Ns Ar section . If both a formatted and an unformatted version of the same manual page, for example .Pa cat1/foo.0 and .Pa man1/foo.1 , exist in the same directory, only the unformatted version is used. +The database is kept up to date with +.Xr makewhatis 8 , +which is run by the +.Xr weekly 8 +maintenance script. .Sh ENVIRONMENT .Bl -tag -width MANPATHX .It Ev MACHINE @@ -265,6 +278,13 @@ and can be used to move to the next and to the previous place providing information about the term last searched for with .Ic :t . +The +.Fl O Cm tag Ns Op = Ns Ar term +option documented in the +.Xr mandoc 1 +manual opens a manual page at the definition of a specific +.Ar term +rather than at the beginning. .It Ev MANPATH The standard search path used by .Nm @@ -297,11 +317,6 @@ If neither PAGER nor MANPAGER is defined, .Xr more 1 .Fl s is used. -Only used if -.Fl a -or -.Fl l -is specified. .El .Sh FILES .Bl -tag -width /etc/man.conf -compact @@ -313,6 +328,16 @@ default man configuration file See .Xr mandoc 1 for details. +.Sh EXAMPLES +Format a page for pasting extracts into an email message \(em +avoid printing any UTF-8 characters, reduce the width to ease +quoting in replies, and remove markup: +.Pp +.Dl $ man -T ascii -O width=65 pledge | col -b +.Pp +Read a typeset page in a PDF viewer: +.Pp +.Dl $ MANPAGER=mupdf man -T pdf lpd .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr apropos 1 , .Xr col 1 ,