in the recutils-1.5 man pages I found at the bottom the string
"1.4.93". Is that intentional or a small bug?
Ops, that was a mistake. The contents of the manpages is the same for
both 1.4.93 and 1.5, but it should read 1.5.
And some further small comments from a "recutils"-newbie: I read the
recsel man-page and the recsel info-page (ok, not completely)
especially in order to find something about the usage of regular
expressions. [...]
I just committed a patch with the following changes, which I hope will
make it easier for the people to find the recutils documentation:
First, I added "direntries" for the individual utilities, so for example
now info recsel actually shows the 'recsel' chapter of the recutils user
manual. Up to now an info-ized version of the manual page was shown
instead.
Additionally, I modified the arguments used in help2man so in the
generated manpages the user is redirected to 'info recutils', and not
'info recsel' or 'info recins'. I think this is a sensible option since
the format itself is documented in the manual.
recsel -q "loane?" books.rec
(that didn't work).
The --quick,-q option currently only works with fixed patterns. But I
like the idea of supporting -q REGEXP, so I will implement it in the
development version :)
Ok, in the recsel man page I found in SYNOPSIS different argument
types, for "-e" "RECORD_EXPR" and for "-q" "EXPR". But later in the
man page itself for "-e" "EXPR" and for "-q" "STR", a little bit
confusing at least for me as newbie.
I committed a patch unifying the optarg names used in the --help
outputs, manpages and the texinfo manual.
I think some more examples would be helpful for non-experts to make
the first usage of that promising tool a little bit easier.
Definitely. I apologize for the low quality of the manual, and the fact
that it does not contain tutorial-like information. It is more a
reference, and not very good... oh well, I will have to improve it.