Re: [Man-db-devel] [PATCH v2] man(1): add .N names

[Colin Watson]

On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 07:11:45AM +0500, Mihail Konev wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Oct 2016 23:05:11 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 03, 2016 at 08:50:11PM +0000, Mihail Konev wrote:
> > > `man chmod..` is now the same as `man -f chmod`
> > > `man chmod...` is now the same as `man -k chmod`
> > > `man chmod....` is now the same as `man -K chmod`
> > 
> > In any case, I don't think this pulls its weight.
> 
> All five are doable in ~/.bashrc with sed+grep or perl,
> which is then portable.
> 
> So probably 'man chmod.2' should not go either,
> because it would be unique to 2016+ Linux/Hurd then.

I'm not averse to new features as long as I think they decrease rather
than increasing confusion :-), hence why I accepted the .N part of it.

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Colin Watson                                       address@hidden