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Re: man completion
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- From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Karel Balej <karelb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Cc: Zsh hackers list <zsh-workers@xxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: man completion
- Date: Sat, 21 May 2022 13:22:57 -0700
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On Sat, May 21, 2022 at 5:57 AM Karel Balej <karelb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> problem was that I was using mandoc instead of man-db as the man
> provider, which however does not provide the manpath command.
>
> This is probably still a bug though, as the comment in _man claims that
> the function assumes either man-db or mandoc is used on Linux.
That really applies only to the structure of the tree and files it
looks for within the path; we don't attempt to reproduce the
functionality of `manpath` itself. Is there any manpath equivalent
for mandoc?
> > Third, what additional locations should be searched on AIX when -m is
> > not present? (And does anyone care?)
>
> Judging by the manual [1], probably just the /usr/share/man directory
> structure.
Thanks.
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