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Re: Description to man pages



On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 10:01:16AM +0200, Otto Wyss wrote:
> The best would be if "man <keyword> would bring up a list of man pages
> with a choose facility when more than one page exists. Maybe this change
> in behavior could be set through an environment variable.

No need. Try 'man -a <keyword>'.

Also, when more than one page exists man will ask you if you want to
display the next one it's found after displaying the first one. Try it.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]


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