apropos(1): Use the official spelling for "SQLite".

While here, use .Bx to refer to 3BSD.

apropos(1): Tweak the description of -1, ... -9, and -s

-s is not for compatibility only, because section names can be
anything. E.g. we have 3lua and 9lua in base. We have rudiments of
3f (for FO

apropos(1): Tweak the description of -1, ... -9, and -s

-s is not for compatibility only, because section names can be
anything. E.g. we have 3lua and 9lua in base. We have rudiments of
3f (for FORTRAN libs). Some packages in pkgsrc also use suffixed 1
and 3 sections.

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apropos(1): use proper -width for the list of options too

apropos(1): use proper -width

apropos.1: document the PAGER environment variable

Fix grammar/spelling at few places.

Add man.conf(5) and man(1) in the SEE ALSO section.

Add options to whatis and apropos to accept custom man.conf.

makemandb(8), man(1) already use -C as an option to take man.conf path,
so use the same option for whatis(1) and apropos(1) for consiten

Add options to whatis and apropos to accept custom man.conf.

makemandb(8), man(1) already use -C as an option to take man.conf path,
so use the same option for whatis(1) and apropos(1) for consitency.
apropos was using -C/-c to disable/enable context of the search
matches, change that to -M/-m respectively.

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Thankfully, apropos returns all results by default these days. Remove
outdated sentence referring to the original (well, old new) limit of 10.

Wording improvements from Abhinav Upadhyay <er.abhinav.upadhyay@gmail.com>

Bump date.

instead of having a format and no format flag, and exposing various formatters,
provide a format enum and expose html formatting too.

Use Ev for environment variables. Improve -n description.

- Fix legacy mode to use like instead of match. This loses ranking.
- default to unlimited lines
- fix formatting of legacy mode

Don't enumerate all the digit sections
Explain limitations in legacy mode

- If the stdout is not a tty, prevent formatting unless forced with -i
- Don't ever page unless asked for with -p
- Introduce "legacy mode" (-l)
1. searches only name and name_desc, prints name(sec

- If the stdout is not a tty, prevent formatting unless forced with -i
- Don't ever page unless asked for with -p
- Introduce "legacy mode" (-l)
1. searches only name and name_desc, prints name(section) - name_description
2. turns off escape formatting (can be forced on with -i)
3. turns off context printing (can be forced on with -c)
- Parse the environment $APROPOS variable as an argument vector.

With these changes one can simply 'export APROPOS=-l' and get the old apropos
behavior.

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add -r flag to elide tty formatting

Make mandb path configurable. makemandb (and related tools) use
the path from the _mandb variable from man.conf now.

Set _mandb in man.conf to same value as was used before.

From Abhinav Upadhyay <

Make mandb path configurable. makemandb (and related tools) use
the path from the _mandb variable from man.conf now.

Set _mandb in man.conf to same value as was used before.

From Abhinav Upadhyay <er.abhinav.upadhyay@gmail.com>.

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Add HISTORY section. From Abhinav Upadhyay in private mail.

Add reference to whatis(1). From Abhinav Upadhyay.

Add support for apropos -s like in the old apropos. Fix capitalisation.
Add note about optional quotation. From Abhinav Upadhyay.

Fix makemandb section.

Import the new apropos/whatis.

This code has been developed by Abhinav Upadhyay as part of Google's Summer
of Code 2011. It uses libmandoc to parse man pages and builds a Full
Text Index in a SQLite

Import the new apropos/whatis.

This code has been developed by Abhinav Upadhyay as part of Google's Summer
of Code 2011. It uses libmandoc to parse man pages and builds a Full
Text Index in a SQLite database. The combination of indexing the full
manual page, filtering out stop words and ranking individual matches
based on the section gives a much improved user experience.

The old makewhatis and friends are kept under MKMAKEMANDB=no for now.

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