tangent on man page locations [was Re: Using .XCompose]

[davidson <davidson@freevolt.org>]

On Mon, 6 Jul 2020 David Wright wrote:

> I presume XCompose(3) is a typo for 5, the file format section.

Probably not. Here we have

  $ zcat /usr/share/man/man3/XCompose.3.gz
  .so man5/Compose.5

  $ realpath /usr/share/man/man5/XCompose.5.gz
  /usr/share/man/man5/Compose.5.gz

and hence

  $ man -w 3 XCompose
  /usr/share/man/man5/Compose.5.gz

  $ man -w 5 XCompose
  /usr/share/man/man5/Compose.5.gz

Which is to say, XCompose(5) and XCompose(3) refer to the same
document.

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