Re: Potentially undesirable behavior with apropos(1)

[thilo jeremias <thilo%nispuk.com@localhost>]

> 
> With the new apropos(1), most of the times you would find the result
> you were searching for in the top, there will be some unrelated
> results also in the mix, but you can just ignore them. :)
> 
>> 
>> I just wonder how can I search for the cryptic keywords I used to be able to
>> find.
> 
> Could you give few examples of such keywords where you don't see the
> expected result in the top, and it might help me to improve apropos :)
> 
>> 
>> I agree stemming and full text search is a nice feature, but just a feature.
>> 
>> Giving the user the option would be democratic.
>> :-)
>> 
>> I just got used to use man -k in the last 25 years, and it would be a
>> unexpected change.
> 
> It is understandable, you can use `apropos -l` if you preferred the
> classic version :)
> 


Thank you, that was my original question,

apropos -l     aka “old” man -k     (no pun intended)

I didn’t know that til now.

Would be nice to have this in “man” too, but I guess this counts as feature now

Thilo

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> Abhinav