Re: New format of output from man -k

[Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost>]

On Thu, 31 Jul 2014, Darren Reed wrote:
> netbsd-current# man -k nfsd
> $<2>nfsd$<2> ($<2>8$<2>)      $<2>remote NFS server$<2>
> $<2>nfsd$<2> runs on a server machine to service NFS requests from
> [...]

The "$<2>" looks like the terminfo specification for a delay.  I 
susect that mandoc is trying underline some words, it's failing 
to interpret the terminfo spec properly, with the result that 
$<2> in the terminfo spec is displayed as $<2> instead of being 
interpreted as a 2-millisecond delay.

> How do I get it to look like it did before with one line per man 
> page?
[...]
> What it used to look like...
>
> $ man -k nfs
> confstr (3) - get string-valued configurable variables
> exports (5) - define remote mount points for NFS mount requests

I wish I could get that output format back for "man -k".  I like 
the new full-text search, but dislike the new output format.

A workaround is to run apropos directly:

TERM=dumb apropos -C nfsd

--apb (Alan Barrett)