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Re: info -w is slow for man pages
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Gavin Smith |
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Re: info -w is slow for man pages |
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Sun, 16 Oct 2022 15:26:44 +0100 |
On Sun, Oct 16, 2022 at 04:58:59PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0123@gmail.com>
> > Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2022 14:23:27 +0100
> > Cc: bug-texinfo@gnu.org
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> > I've committed more code to use "man -w" first to check if the man page
> > exists, before "man -a", in commit 8520d2b4d8.
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> Is the -w option to 'man' portable? According to my Posix references,
> it isn't.
No, it doesn't exist on Solaris:
https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26502_01/html/E29030/man-1.html#scrolltoc
It may be more trouble than it's worth to try to account for different
man versions.
Any other comments before I revert the change?