Re: Manual Pages

[Brent Smith <gnome nextreality net>]

Duncan Lithgow wrote:
> Please CC me, I'm not on the gnome-doc-devel-list.
>
> At the moment in the Manual Pages section of the docs, it's pretty hard 
> to see what is what.
>
> Does anyone actually remember what 'acct' is?
>
> Why don't we pull the 'NAME' from the man page, split the first string 
> up to the first space off, we'd get 'acct'. Make that a link, and in 
> plain text put everything after ' - ' (in this case 'execution 
> accounting file') I see we'd need to do some regex to drop the '/etc/', 
> and see if it's possible to make those other links work. Anyway - I can 
> do the manual work, but am not much of a coder - and regex drives me crazy.

Reading/parsing from all the man pages on disk will be pretty expensive.

Smarter to use something like whatis which looks in /var/cache/man/index.db

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Brent Smith <gnome nextreality>
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