Re: bin/47701: apropos doesn't work

[Tim Rightnour <root%garbled.net@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/47701; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Tim Rightnour <root%garbled.net@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
 netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: bin/47701: apropos doesn't work
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 22:41:44 -0700 (MST)

 I notice that the pager gives some odd results. On my primary box, I get this
 at the bottom:
 
 wsconsctl (8)   get or set wscons state
 --More--(byte 1197)polaris# 
 
 And then it blanks out my prompt.  (via xterm)
 
 Another box I'm ssh'd into via an xterm, gives me a screen full of esc codes.
 
 Also, a strange result, I get less results from "apropos -C8p de", than I do
 from "apropos -C8p dev"
 
 I think some of the new matching code is really neat, but I'm completely
 confounded by what it does and doesn't find.
 
 On 28-Mar-2013 Valery Ushakov wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR bin/47701; it has been noted by GNATS.
 > 
 > From: Valery Ushakov <uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost>
 > To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
 > Cc: 
 > Subject: Re: bin/47701: apropos doesn't work
 > Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 08:31:13 +0400
 > 
 >  On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 03:35:01 +0000, root%garbled.net@localhost wrote:
 >  
 >  > If I want to find usbdevs, apparently I have to do -C8 ?? 
 >  
 >  Apparently apropos now prints (silently) just the first 10 results!
 >  
 >  You need to use -p to tell it to return everything.  Except the way -p
 >  invokes pager seems broken since it uses popen.
 >  
 >  -uwe
 >  
 
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