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Re: Open man page problem
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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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