On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 10:57:57AM -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Chris G wrote: > > > > OK, maybe, but it would be *much* more useful if one was pointed at > > some information about the thing in question, e.g. 'man -k yelp' tells > > me:- > > > > yelp (rpm) - A system documentation reader from the Gnome project > > > > but doesn't give me a clue as to how to find out anything else. The > > whole point of 'man -k' or 'apropos' is surely to point at the place > > where you can find out more about they keyword you have entered. > > > Sure it provides a clue - not much more then a clue, but none of the > entries produces by man -k give you more then a clue. For example, > > xlsclients (1x) - list client applications running on a > display > > does not tell you to run man xlsclients. Apart from the (rpm) references *everything* returned by man -k refers to a man page. It used to be the whole point of man -k, if you wanted to find the man page for, say, a terminal application you could say 'man -k terminal', and it'll return things that point you at the manual pages for terminal applications. Now it returns other (rpm) things as well which *don't* point at man pages. -- Chris Green
