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author | ru <ru@FreeBSD.org> | 2004-07-02 21:53:39 +0000 |
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committer | ru <ru@FreeBSD.org> | 2004-07-02 21:53:39 +0000 |
commit | 2334c79a7573e958e33d5cc7301829244e5d216f (patch) | |
tree | cb3511ffa5425d9a9349a2d6808d5a7e68c2ef07 /gnu/usr.bin/man | |
parent | 42b6f36397ef5aa7ea83457d5b82b53e5e96d5d4 (diff) | |
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Mechanically kill hard sentence breaks.
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1 files changed, 16 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/usr.bin/man/man/man.man b/gnu/usr.bin/man/man/man.man index 7b8a2a3..0153f1f 100644 --- a/gnu/usr.bin/man/man/man.man +++ b/gnu/usr.bin/man/man/man.man @@ -32,19 +32,23 @@ .Ar name ... .Sh DESCRIPTION .Nm Man -formats and displays the on-line manual pages. This version knows +formats and displays the on-line manual pages. +This version knows about the .Ev MANPATH and .Ev PAGER environment variables, so you can have your own set(s) of personal man pages and choose whatever program you -like to display the formatted pages. If section is specified, +like to display the formatted pages. +If section is specified, .Nm -only looks in that section of the manual. You may also specify the +only looks in that section of the manual. +You may also specify the order to search the sections for entries and which preprocessors to run on the source files via command line options or environment -variables. If enabled by the system administrator, formatted man +variables. +If enabled by the system administrator, formatted man pages will also be compressed with the `%compress%' command to save space. .Pp @@ -59,7 +63,8 @@ uses (which is built into the .Nm binary) -to determine the path to search. This option overrides the +to determine the path to search. +This option overrides the .Ev MANPATH environment variable. .It Fl P Ar pager @@ -80,7 +85,8 @@ environment variable. By default, .Nm will exit after displaying the first manual page it -finds. Using this option forces +finds. +Using this option forces .Nm to display all the manual pages that match @@ -208,7 +214,8 @@ is set, its value is used as the path to search for manual pages. If .Ev MANROFFSEQ is set, its value is used to determine the set of preprocessors run -before running nroff or troff. By default, pages are passed through +before running nroff or troff. +By default, pages are passed through the table preprocessor before nroff. .It Ev MANSECT If @@ -218,7 +225,8 @@ is set, its value is used to determine which manual sections to search. If .Ev PAGER is set, its value is used as the name of the program to use to display -the man page. By default, +the man page. +By default, .Nm %pager% is used. .El |