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[Groff] Sman released: Tool for searching man pages


From: J Robinson
Subject: [Groff] Sman released: Tool for searching man pages
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 07:51:53 -0700 (PDT)

Hello Everyone,

I wanted to let people here know about Sman, a new
'man -k' and 'apropros' replacement.

Here's an example of 'sman' in action:

   % sman kernel module -m 4 --rank
   1000 lsof            (8) list open files
    939 vinum           (4) Logical Volume Manager
    855 loader          (8) kernel bootstrapping final
stage
    825 perlthrtut      (1) tutorial on threads in
Perl

You can find Sman at http://joshr.com/src/sman .

Following is part of the Sman README.  I understand a
new release of Sman is coming soon.

      Sman is the Searcher for Man pages. Based on the
example of the same name in Josh Rabinowitz's article
"How To Index Anything" in the July, 2003 issue of
Linux Journal
(http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6652),
sman is
      an enhanced version of 'apropos' and 'man -k'. 
Sman adds
      several key abilities over its predecessors:

      * Supports complex natural language text
searches such as
          "(linux and kernel) or (mach and
microkernel)"

      * Shows results in a ranked order

      * Allows for searches by manpage section, title,
          body, or filename

      * Indexes the complete contents of the man page,
not just
          the title and description

      * Uses a prebuilt index to perform fast searches

      * Performs 'stemming' so that a search for
"searches"
        will match a document with the word
"searching"

Where do I get sman?
      Sman is currently distributed from
http://joshr.com/src/sman .

Input from people on this list would likely be
especially helpful, given your knowledge of
manpage-related issues.


        
                
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