Re: Importing the apropos GSoC code and switching to mandoc(1) by default

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Sun, Feb 05, 2012 at 08:27:26PM +0200, Alan Barrett wrote:
> >One line per result would remove the context of the match, which
> >would be a serious regeression in usefulness.
> 
> I liked the one-line results from the old apropos or man -k, and I'd
> prefer that to be the default.  The context is also very useful, but
> I think it should be optional.

Keep in mind that this is searching not just the description, but the
full man page. The matching keywords may not even appear in the one line
text.

Joerg