Re: Inconsistent macro notation in manual pages.

"G. Branden Robinson" <[email protected]> writes:

> Looks good to me.  Here it is as a shell function you can put in 
> your
> .bashrc (or startup file for some other POSIX shell).
>
>     # Search for a word in a given man page.
>     #
>     # Equivalent examples (if using man-db man): tagman am 7 
>     groff
>     #                                            tagman am 
>     'groff(7)'
>     #                                            tagman am -s 7 
>     groff
>     tagman () {
>       word=$1
>       shift
>       man "$@" | "${PAGER:-less}" -c 
>       '+/[^a-zA-Z0-9]'"$word"'[^a-zA-Z0-9]'
>     }

As a data point, this nifty function overall worked for me with 
mandoc
man(1) as well, although:

* mandoc man(1) doesn't like 'groff(7)' as an argument, resulting 
  in
  a "No entry for groff(7) in the manual" error. (`man 7 groff`
  works fine.)

* i've been trialing using most(1) instead of less(1), and the
  function doesn't work with the former.

Thanks!


Alexis.
(flexibeast)