[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Default CDROM device on OpenBSD

Diego Biurrun diego at biurrun.de
Tue Aug 3 13:05:30 CEST 2010


On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 12:27:45PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote:
> 
> While I am at it, another wild idea about man page: the man page for zsh is
> huge, thrice as huge as the one for mplayer. But it is split into small,
> manageable parts: man zshbuiltins for builtin functions, man zshzle for the
> line editing system, etc., plus man zshall for all the man pages
> concatenated, allowing a full-text search. It uses the ".so" feature of
> *roff: zshall.1 is very small, and ends with a sequence of ".so
> man1/zshoptions.1", ".so man1/zshbuiltins.1".
> 
> I would find a similar split very useful for mplayer: someone who just wants
> a reminder of the arguments of -ao alsa could type "man mplayer-ao-alsa"
> instead of searching for "alsa" in the whole manpage (the relevant
> occurrence is the seventeenth). Someone looking for something in the video
> filters would type "man mplayer-vf", there would be no risk that his
> full-text search brings him in the description of a VO.

I will split the MEncoder man page off of the MPlayer man page, that
will be a start.

Diego


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