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bug#50852: [PATCH] Fix search of the look program.
From: |
Stefan Kangas |
Subject: |
bug#50852: [PATCH] Fix search of the look program. |
Date: |
Tue, 28 Sep 2021 04:06:48 -0700 |
André A. Gomes <andremegafone@gmail.com> writes:
> I don't think there's a GNU one, since it's not part of the GNU
> coreutils.
>
> Here's what the man page say:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> The look utility appeared in Version 7 AT&T Unix.
>
> The look command is part of the util-linux package and is available
> from https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> From the first sentence I inferred that it appeared in 1979.
>
> I had a look at the "look" program both on my GNU/Linux machine and on a
> modern Mac laptop. Both have the same "look", none have the "-r" flag.
Maybe it's better to make all that stuff obsolete, indeed.
But I do wonder why the "-r" parameter was added. It seems like it
depends on the `ispell-have-new-look' variable, added in the initial
revision in 1994 (commit 007852e00dd8).
bug#50852: [PATCH] Fix search of the look program., André A . Gomes, 2021/09/28
- bug#50852: [PATCH] Fix search of the look program.,
Stefan Kangas <=
bug#50852: [PATCH] Fix search of the look program., Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/09/28