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Re: Manual pages for glibc.
From: |
Roel Janssen |
Subject: |
Re: Manual pages for glibc. |
Date: |
Wed, 09 Aug 2017 13:49:36 +0200 |
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mu4e 0.9.18; emacs 25.2.1 |
Ricardo Wurmus writes:
> Hi Roel,
>
>> Which package do I need to install to be able to read the man pages of
>> functions in glibc like 'snprintf' and 'malloc'?
>>
>> I installed glibc, but that does not seem to provide the man pages.
>
> Here’s what I did:
>
> unionfs $(printf "%s:" /gnu/store/*/share/info) ~/tmp/info
>
> This gives me a union of all the beautiful info manuals in the store.
> To read the GNU libc’s info manual I do this in Emacs:
>
> C-u C-h i ~/tmp/info/libc.info.gz RET
>
> It opens up the manual and I can search for snprintf in the index with
> “i snprintf RET”.
>
> Not sure about the man pages, though.
Right. Thanks for this solution. On GuixSD, the info pages for libc
are automatically available in Emacs, so I can look up the functions
there.
It would still be nice to have the man-pages as well, because they are a
little more descriptive some times.
Kind regards,
Roel Janssen