Allen Briggs' wtf(6) to grovel the acronyms database.

wtf(6): Whitespace.

Try freebsd's pkg-info as well

From John Hein, via Nikolai Lifanov. PR misc/52684

branches: 1.24.2;
wtf(6): use character classes

ok pgoyette@ silence dholland@

wtf(6): quote "$f"

ok pgoyette@ silence dholland@

branches: 1.22.2;
Don't skip the superfluous "is" argument if it's not superfluous!

This allows us to use `wtf is` and get information for the acronym "is"
and produces the same output as `wtf is is` withough requiring the extra
typing by the user.

obey $ACRONYMDB like before

Add -o flag.

PR/47178 from Bug Hunting

src/games/wtf/wtf:
- Correct `usage' (to match new `SYNOPSIS' from man page);
- augment comment on quering pkgsrc's help facility;
- correct interpretation of pkgsrc' help facility query result.

src/games/wtf/wtf.6:
- enhance `SYNOPSIS', document description (`.Dd'), and overal
program description;
- augment description about quering pkgsrc's help facility;
- improve wording;
- augment `HISTORY' section;
- bump date.

- correct `usage' message;
- improve wording.

From Bug Hunting.

branches: 1.17.2;
use modern shell constructs

allow multiple '-f acronyms' arguments to be given, which makes this behave
more consistently with ACRONYMSDB, which may also point to multiple files

branches: 1.15.14; 1.15.32;
Teach wtf(6) about pkgsrc's help facility:

% cd /usr/pkgsrc/audio/qsynth
% wtf subst
subst: ===> mk/subst.mk:
# This Makefile fragment implements a general text replacement facility.
...

- Don't call basename $0 at many places. Use variable $PROGNAME
- Better check when neither $ACRONYMDB is define nor files in
/usr/share/misc/ are found
- Replace cat | fgrep to using fgrep only
- Replace sort | uniq to using sort -u

By Slava Semushin <slava.semushin@gmail.com> in private email.

Remove the -t flag from the usage.

* Change program logic to not nest needlessly
* Search all acronyms databases, and don't force the user to
know in which category to look (-t is gone)
* If an acronym is not found in the database or by whatis(1),
also check pkg_info(1). Per PR bin/30539 by Geert Hendrickx
(geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be)

OK'd by Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv>

branches: 1.11.4; 1.11.6;
Implement a -t option, to easily select an acronyms list from /usr/share/misc.
One can do `wtf -t comp pci' and it will use /usr/share/misc/acronyms.comp
to search the acronym as usual.

And use basename $0 to get program's name...

Implement the `-f' command line option to specify which acronyms database
to use. Overrides ACRONYMDB's value, if given.

Use pipe ("|") as a sed command field separator and allow slash ("/")
character in acronyms. (e.g. W/, B/C, ...)

Approved by jdolecek.

Just print basename in usage string.

Do not match non-literals (REs).

A slightly different patch was submitted in PR 8388 by
Antti Kantee <pooka@iki.fi>

branches: 1.5.4;
Fix the part of pr8201 which is IMHO a bug: the error message now goes
to stderr.

The existing error message ("I don't know what xxx means") is
unchanged, as it is stylisticly in keeping with the light-hearted
nature of the program, and is also more likely to be accurate than the
"no such acronym" error message proposed in 8201.

make sure only whole words are matched, use [:space:] RE to avoid embedded
<TAB>s

Check whatis(1) if we don't find an acronym matching the argument

remove sh warning when invoked with no args

Allen Briggs' wtf(6) to grovel the acronyms database.

PR/49850: Nikolai Lifanov: Document acronyms-o

Fix typo, remove trailing space.

Add -o flag.

PR/47178 from Bug Hunting

src/games/wtf/wtf:
- Correct `usage' (to match new `SYNOPSIS' from man page);
- augment comment on quering pkgsrc's help facility;
- correct interpretation of pkgsrc' help facility query result.

src/games/wtf/wtf.6:
- enhance `SYNOPSIS', document description (`.Dd'), and overal
program description;
- augment description about quering pkgsrc's help facility;
- improve wording;
- augment `HISTORY' section;
- bump date.

Bump date for previous.

- improve wording and overall program description (notably for `-f');
- improve macro usage;
- bump date.

From Bug Hunting.

branches: 1.13.6; 1.13.12;
Remove trailing whitespace.

branches: 1.12.14; 1.12.18;
Teach wtf(6) about pkgsrc's help facility:

% cd /usr/pkgsrc/audio/qsynth
% wtf subst
subst: ===> mk/subst.mk:
# This Makefile fragment implements a general text replacement facility.
...

Fix typo or mispelling.

Drop trailing space.

* Change program logic to not nest needlessly
* Search all acronyms databases, and don't force the user to
know in which category to look (-t is gone)
* If an acronym is not found in the database or by whatis(1),
also check pkg_info(1). Per PR bin/30539 by Geert Hendrickx
(geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be)

OK'd by Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv>

branches: 1.8.4; 1.8.6;
Implement a -t option, to easily select an acronyms list from /usr/share/misc.
One can do `wtf -t comp pci' and it will use /usr/share/misc/acronyms.comp
to search the acronym as usual.

Mention the /usr/share/misc/acronyms.comp database.

Implement the `-f' command line option to specify which acronyms database
to use. Overrides ACRONYMDB's value, if given.

New sentences begin on new lines.
Patch from Richard Elz, slightly improved by yours truly.

Whitespace and/or punctuation fixes.

Check whatis(1) if we don't find an acronym matching the argument

We're in section 6.

Allen Briggs' wtf(6) to grovel the acronyms database.