Re: Suggestion: add a "no-stemming" option to apropos(1)?

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Thu, 8 Jun 2017, Martin Neitzel wrote:

> PG>	Don't get me wrong, I love apropos(1).  But...
> PG>	I'm continually bitten by the "stemming" that occurs. [...]
>
> So am I.  I completely switched over from "man -k" to an alias
> effecting "apropos -l" ("legacy"-mode):

legacy mode is close, but it doesn't print the "context" information 
(and, if you use "apropos -l -m" you still don't get context info, but 
you do get extra blank lines).


> % apropos -l lfs
> lfs_segwait(2) - wait until a segment is written
> lfs_markv(2) - rewrite disk blocks to new disk locations
> lfs_bmapv(2) - retrieve disk addresses for arrays of blocks
> lfs_segclean(2) - mark a segment clean
> rump_lfs(8) - mount a lfs image with a userspace server
> resize_lfs(8) - resize a mounted log-structured filesystem
> newfs_lfs(8) - construct a new LFS file system
> mount_sysctlfs(8) - mount sysctl namespace as a directory hierarchy
> mount_nilfs(8) - mount a NILFS file system
> mount_lfs(8) - mount a log-structured file system
> lfs_cleanerd(8) - garbage collect a log-structured file system
> hlfsd(8) - home-link file system daemon
> fsck_lfs(8) - Log-structured File System consistency check and interactive repair
> dumplfs(8) - dump file system information
> dump_lfs(8) - filesystem backup
> %
>
> (This is with netbsd7;  with 6, apropos -C was fine, too.)
>
> 								Martin
>
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