If set to a numeric value, used as the width manpages should be
displayed. Otherwise, if set to a special value ``tty'', and
output is to a terminal, the pages may be displayed over the
whole width of the screen.
Let groff pass the -c flag to grotty, which will turn off ANSI
sequences. While these are not a problem for our more/less, they get
mangled by col(1) and this will result in garbage output.
This makes man(1) work together with textproc/groff, in case the
user decided to delete the old groff from base (-DWITHOUT_GROFF).
Use locale(1) to determine the locale instead of trying to hand roll it.
Correctly construct groff call based on charset and locale independently,
not the mix between the two.
Submitted by: uqs@
commandline. This mirrors the old (undocumented) GNU man functionality.
Also document this feature in the implementation notes section of
the manpage.
Submitted by: arundel
Approved by: wes (mentor implicit)
also in the base set, the man utility when invoked with -a would display
pages for each locale in the same tree:
$ LANG=en_GB.ISO8859-15 man -wa man
/usr/share/man/en.ISO8859-15/man1/man.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/man.1.gz
/usr/share/man/en.ISO8859-15/man7/man.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/man.7.gz
Use continue to break out of the loop for the current locale. This results
in behavior more closely matching the old GNU man implementation:
$ LANG=en_GB.ISO8859-15 man -wa man
/usr/share/man/en.ISO8859-15/man1/man.1.gz
/usr/share/man/en.ISO8859-15/man7/man.7.gz
This will still search for a copy of the file in other manual path
locations. If there was a /usr/local/man/man1/man.1.gz file, it would still
be displayed. This is also consistent with the GNU man implementation.
Submitted by: arundel
Approved by: wes (mentor implicit)
Features of this new version in favor of the old one:
BSD licensed -- old one is GPL.
Imports configuration from /etc/man.conf and LOCALBASE/etc/man.d/*.conf
allowing ports to extend the base functionality. The pluggable
configuration can supplement the manual search path (retiring use.perl),
add locales, and override language specific toolsets (attempt to merge
the japanese/man port into the base system as much as possible).
Much effort has been made to make this version mirror the functionality
of the existing implementation. For 99% of users, it should be a drop in
replacement.
PR: gnu/143271, gnu/4419
Reviewed by: dougb (previous versions)
Approved by: wes (mentor)
