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Re: _man - fast searching for glob patterns

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From: Zefram <zefram@xxxxxxxx>
To: Andrej.Borsenkow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Andrej Borsenkow)
Subject: Re: _man - fast searching for glob patterns
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 18:17:52 +0100 (BST)
Cc: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <000101bf090a$e9069970$21c9ca95@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> from Andrej Borsenkow at "Sep 27, 1999 9: 8:25 pm"
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Andrej Borsenkow wrote:
>Well, it is trivial to look for mandb file ... unfortunately, the number of
>manual pages is about 4000

Better read the index file once, and cache it in an associative array.

-zefram

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