Subject: Re: KDE Help Search Engine .... ht://Dig tools not part of default install ?
From: Paul J. Lucas (pauljlucas@mac.com)
Date: Sun Jun 24 2001 - 19:29:36 MDT
On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Dr. David Sterling wrote:
> has anyone figured out how to build an index of the man and info docs as well
> (those options are disabled in the dialog box)?
You can use my SWISH++ software (better than htDig, in my
opinion) freely available from:
http://homepage.mac.com/pauljlucas/software/swish/
There is no RPM, so you will have to build it from source.
However, once built, you can index manual pages using the
following config file:
IncludeFile man *.[12345678n]
IncludeFile man *.[12345678][a-z]
FilterFile *.gz gunzip -c %f > @/tmp/%B
FollowLinks yes
TitleLines 150
Verbosity 2
and then with the following command line:
index /usr/man /usr/local/man
SWISH++ does a full-text index and knows about the format of
man page files, so it makes a much better apropos(1) command.
It also makes section heading into meta tags so queries like:
search errors = eintr
will return all those manual pages that list EINTR in their
ERRORS section.
- Paul
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