Re: Option -p in apropos(1)

["David H. Gutteridge" <david%gutteridge.ca@localhost>]

On Tue, 2022-05-17 at 08:24 -0400, David H. Gutteridge wrote:
> On 2022-05-17 04:33, Rocky Hotas wrote:
> > On mag 16 21:51, David H. Gutteridge wrote:
> > 
> > > It does accept $PAGER as a definition of what tool to use for the
> > > purpose, though that wasn't documented in the apropos(1) man page.
> > > I
> > > just added it.
> > 
> > FTR, for some reason in my default env(1) variable PAGER is not set:
> > it
> > is empty. However, if (for example) I try to set it to `more', 
> > apropos(1)
> > behaves as described yesterday, so there are no improvements.
> 
> Yes, it won't be set by default, no more than $APROPOS would be. I
> didn't mean to imply setting it will fix your issue, I was just noting
> it wasn't documented before. You'd have to try a patched version of
> the apropos(1) command.

This (along with other fixes) has now been pulled up to the netbsd-9
branch, so the next releng build of 9.2_STABLE will include it.

Regards,

Dave