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author | Aaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org> | 1999-06-05 01:21:54 +0000 |
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committer | Aaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org> | 1999-06-05 01:21:54 +0000 |
commit | 1805b94e6caa317d402e398fa06fa3d93d6827a0 (patch) | |
tree | e58ba56a51e58547f1d6f5a95c25435bc397c5c3 /usr.bin/man/man.1 | |
parent | f35d61706eae00527a19f021ef26ab0109f18e5c (diff) |
- remove trailing white space
- remove arguments from .Os macros
- remove arguments from .Nm macros, where appropriate
- some more Dq/Sq/Ql insanity
- still lots to do in the usr.bin tree... :/
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/man/man.1')
-rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/man/man.1 | 58 |
1 files changed, 36 insertions, 22 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/man/man.1 b/usr.bin/man/man.1 index c904c3b12f2..765d12b381f 100644 --- a/usr.bin/man/man.1 +++ b/usr.bin/man/man.1 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: man.1,v 1.8 1998/09/26 19:55:06 aaron Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: man.1,v 1.9 1999/06/05 01:21:33 aaron Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1990, 1993 .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ .Fl f Ar filename .Sh DESCRIPTION The -.Nm man +.Nm utility displays the .Bx @@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ and combination. (Normally, only the first manual page found is displayed.) .It Fl C Ar file -Use the specified +Use the specified .Ar file instead of the default configuration file. This permits users to configure their own manual environment. @@ -111,24 +111,30 @@ Display only the lines of the requested manual pages. .It Fl M Ar path Override the list of standard directories which -.Nm man +.Nm searches for manual pages. The supplied .Ar path -must be a colon (``:'') separated list of directories. +must be a colon +.Pq Ql \&: +separated list of directories. This search path may also be set using the environment variable .Ev MANPATH . The subdirectories to be searched, and their search order, -is specified by the ``_subdir'' line in the -.Nm man +is specified by the +.Dq _subdir +line in the +.Nm configuration file. .It Fl m Ar path Augment the list of standard directories which -.Nm man +.Nm searches for manual pages. The supplied .Ar path -must be a colon (``:'') separated list of directories. +must be a colon +.Pq Ql \&: +separated list of directories. These directories will be searched before the standard directories or the directories specified using the .Fl M @@ -136,20 +142,24 @@ option or the .Ev MANPATH environment variable. The subdirectories to be searched, and their search order, -is specified by the ``_subdir'' line in the -.Nm man +is specified by the +.Dq _subdir +line in the +.Nm configuration file. .It Fl s Ar section Another way of specifying the section, for compatibility with -.Nm man +.Nm on other operating systems. .It Fl S Ar subsection Specifies the machine-dependent subsection. This overrides the .Ev MACHINE -environment variable. See the ``ENVIRONMENT'' section below. +environment variable. See the +.Sx ENVIRONMENT +section below. .It Fl w List the pathnames of the manual pages which -.Nm man +.Nm would display for the specified .Ar section and @@ -166,10 +176,10 @@ works. The optional .Ar section argument restricts the directories that -.Nm man +.Nm will search. The -.Nm man +.Nm configuration file (see .Xr man.conf 5 ) specifies the possible @@ -177,13 +187,13 @@ specifies the possible values that are currently available. If only a single argument is specified or if the first argument is not a valid section, -.Nm man +.Nm assumes that the argument is the name of a manual page to be displayed. .Sh ENVIRONMENT .Bl -tag -width MANPATHX .It Ev MACHINE As some manual pages are intended only for specific architectures, -.Nm man +.Nm searches any subdirectories, with the same name as the current architecture, in every directory which it searches. @@ -194,15 +204,19 @@ variable to the name of a specific architecture. .It Ev MANPATH The standard search path used by -.Nm man +.Nm may be overridden by specifying a path in the .Ev MANPATH environment variable. -The format of the path is a colon (``:'') separated list of directories. +The format of the path is a colon +.Pq Ql \&: +separated list of directories. The subdirectories to be searched as well as their search order -is specified by the ``_subdir'' line in the -.Nm man +is specified by the +.Dq _subdir +line in the +.Nm configuration file. .It Ev PAGER Any value of the environment variable |