At 8:17 AM +0530 9/10/05, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >Tony Nelson wrote: > >>Apropos is a command in the man package that shows entries in the whatis >>database that match a search word. Often there are many matches, and one >>might like to winnow them down by typing more words. Instead, apropos >>prints all the matches for each word, making the problem worse. One can >>pipe the apropos output to grep, but I have something better. >> >><http://georgeanelson.com/apropos2.htm> >> >Might consider putting this in Fedora Extras That seems like a good idea -- as soon as I have a bit more user feedback. Thank you. >>This list is about all I know. Where would be other good places to >>publicize an improved apropos, so that people who would benefit from it >>(but might not be looking for it) will notice it? >> >> >Freshmeat is one. Consider writing an article about this and posting in >news sites if you want to go further I'll look into putting it on Freshmeat. I don't really know any news sites. Hopefully I'll have something more to write about in a little while, as this would make a rather puny article. And who actually uses apropos, anyway (besides me -- and no insult to Federico Lucifredi)? ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
