More random python observations from a perl programmer
bowman
bowman at montana.com
Sun Aug 22 13:52:13 EDT 1999
Alexander Staubo wrote:
>
> Your tool isn't everybody else's tool. Personally I don't even know what
> "apropos" is. Even if I made an effort at using it, it doubt it would
> make _my_ workday any easier;
'apropos' is the tool that saves man's bacon. You're sitting there
trying to find some info on a widget, but you can't remember if it is
'button', pushbutton', 'Button', 'XmpushButton', 'XmPushButton',
'TkButton' blah, blah, blah, so you type
apropos button
It also solves the problem of 'foo' having entries in man 1, man 3, man
n.
If you have to use the antiquated, deprecated,
no-longer-supported-see-Info, man pages, it is an invaluable tool.
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