Re: why are we renaming ncurses man pages?
Sorry for the slow response time. I've been extremely busy this week.
Ian Jackson writes:
> Richard Kettlewell writes ("Re: why are we renaming ncurses man pages? "):
> ...
> > Isn't it a good thing that you can say man <function name> and get the
> > right man page, rather than having to say man curs_<function name>,
> > though?
>
> Indeed, that's why this is done. It's also done because curs_func(3x)
> is (a) ugly and (b) completely out of keeping with our nice clean
> manpage scheme.
>
> ncurses can't do it this way in the upstream version because they have
> to support people whose manual programs aren't as good as ours.
>
> Is it really too hard to sed the manpages ?
I checked a couple of other systems. SunOS lumps almost everthing into
a single curses.3 manpage and Solaris uses the curs_*.3 style.
My suggestion is to install the ncurses manpages unchanged and add
links (either hard or symbolic) for the names we prefer.
David
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