[821] in Athena Bugs
6.0C Xlib manual pages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jik@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue Sep 6 06:27:51 1988
From: <jik@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 88 06:27:03 EDT
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
When a manual page contains more than one command, it is standard
practice to insert the entire manual page into the man<foo> directory
under the name of the first command, and then to place one-line files
under all of the other command names which refer to the first command
name. This way, the user will get the manual page by asking for any
command.
However, this has not been done with ANY of the Xlib manual pages.
It's very, very frustrating to have to guess which command is listed
first on the man page you wish to see before issuing the man command,
instead of just issuing the man command with the command you are
looking for.
Granted, apropos or man -k will give you the information you need, but
you shouldn't *have* to use apropos or man -k if you already know the
name of the command you are looking for!
jik
