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From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: "André A. Gomes" <andremegafone@gmail.com>
Cc: 50852@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#50852: [PATCH] Fix search of the look program.
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2021 04:06:48 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmnexBA+6x_JS-n5UnuCQMgeRL8VwJoJdFS-m+SgC7M44A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o88d6qxk.fsf@gmail.com>

André A. Gomes <andremegafone@gmail.com> writes:

> I don't think there's a GNU one, since it's not part of the GNU
> coreutils.
>
> Here's what the man page say:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> The look utility appeared in Version 7 AT&T Unix.
>
> The look command is part of the util-linux  package  and  is  available
>        from https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> From the first sentence I inferred that it appeared in 1979.
>
> I had a look at the "look" program both on my GNU/Linux machine and on a
> modern Mac laptop.  Both have the same "look", none have the "-r" flag.

Maybe it's better to make all that stuff obsolete, indeed.

But I do wonder why the "-r" parameter was added.  It seems like it
depends on the `ispell-have-new-look' variable, added in the initial
revision in 1994 (commit 007852e00dd8).





  reply	other threads:[~2021-09-28 11:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-27 18:45 bug#50852: [PATCH] Fix search of the look program André A. Gomes
2021-09-27 23:56 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-28  6:07   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-28  6:11     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-28  7:15       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-28  8:41         ` André A. Gomes
2021-09-28  9:15           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-30 16:09           ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-28  8:32   ` André A. Gomes
2021-09-28 11:06     ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2022-09-02 11:35       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-28  5:54 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-28  9:02   ` André A. Gomes

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