Re: Open man page problem
Re: Open man page problem
- Subject: Re: Open man page problem
- From: Matt Morse <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 13:37:58 -0800
Ashley,
Thanks for the further information. This is a known bug, scheduled to
be fix in the next release. The problem is that Xcode isn't checking
man pages whose source files end in anything other than the section
number-- *.3pm etc. are being skipped. If you provide the suffix,
Xcode will use it, and thus Xcode finds the page.
And, you're right you shouldn't need to specify a section--unless you
need to distinguish between entries in different sections. For
example, looking up 'chown' will find the page in section 2. Looking
up chmod, will find the command in section one. However, if you are
looking for the chmod function reference, you can specify 'chmod 2' (or
chmod(2), or 2 chmod) to find the reference in section 2. The goal is
to use the same heuristic as the man command--obviously, there's still
some work when it comes to suffixes.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
-- Matt
On Mar 3, 2004, at 12:17 PM, Ashley Clark wrote:
On Mar 3, 2004, at 2:07 PM, Matt Morse wrote:
A couple questions:
1. Can you access these man pages from the command line using 'man'?
2. If you use the 'search string' feature of the Open man page panel
and search for 'DBI' or some other string that would be in the
abstract for one of these commands, is that page found?
If 'man' on the command line finds the page but Xcode's Open man page
panel doesn't, please file a bug.
Upon some further examination, from the command line I can type 'man
DBI' and it comes up. I tried the search string feature and it did not
list that way either. But, if I open the man page as '3pm DBI' it
opens. I would have thought that I shouldn't need to know the section
that the man page is installed under to pull it up.
An example that I think is installed on the computer and exhibits this
behavior is the page for FindBin, just typing FindBin in open man page
doesn't find it, but specifying '3pm FindBin' opens it.
Ashley Clark
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