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.
While I like to keep things as consistant as possible, I absolutely
can't stand to keep things the same simply because "it's always been
done this way".
Since there is no consistant standard, let's do it right. The new
way (i.e. "man 3curs <func>") sounds perfect to me!
Brian
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