Re: bin/47701: apropos doesn't work

[Abhinav Upadhyay <er.abhinav.upadhyay%gmail.com@localhost>]

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

From: Abhinav Upadhyay <er.abhinav.upadhyay%gmail.com@localhost>
To: NetBSD GNATS <gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
Cc: gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, 
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Subject: Re: bin/47701: apropos doesn't work
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 02:01:51 +0530

 On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 11:20 AM, David Holland
 <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR bin/47701; it has been noted by GNATS.
 >
 > From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
 > To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
 > Cc:
 > Subject: Re: bin/47701: apropos doesn't work
 > Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 05:47:26 +0000
 >
 >  On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 10:41:44PM -0700, Tim Rightnour wrote:
 >   > 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.
 >
 >  It's using a real text retrieval engine, so "de" is more likely to
 >  find "locale" than "dev". This is a good thing.
 >
 >  However, I don't like the way it blithely only displays a few results.
 
 But otherwise, the screen will be full of search results and that
 won't look pretty as well :)
 
 I think, it would be nice to add a message at the end of the output
 like "showing 10 out of n matching results, use -p to view all
 results" ?
 
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 Abhinav