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Re: 'man' completion





Hi,

for what it's worth, I used to use the whatis database and grep - this of
course only works as long as your whatis database is up to date.

Steve




guckes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on 28.08.98 18:42:31

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Subject:  Re: 'man' completion





Quoting Bart Schaefer (schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx):
> The only missing bit being that if you want to use the section
> number to restrict the search (i.e. "man 5 x<TAB>" completes only
> to "xferlog" and not to "xterm" etc.), then you need a function.

Such as?  ;-)

I presume there must be some non-plus-ultra completion control for "man".
But which *is* the best?

Sven  [hoping to see more of this on this maillist]







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