Erik Heckers fixed bug #493 Searching the installed man pages for SDL functions fails, e.g. man -k SDL_ |grep Video After investigating this I found that "makewhatis", the tool that generates the "whatis" database, reads the SDL_* man pages, but doesn't produce entries in the "whatis" database for the SDL_* man pages. After some more debugging I found the reason is a missing space. After editing SDL_Init.3(.gz) and replacing SDL_Init\- Initializes SDL with SDL_Init \- Initializes SDL everything works fine. After running "makewhatis" I can successfully do a man -k SDL_ and SDL_Init is listed in the output.

--- a/docs/man3/SDL_SetVideoMode.3	Sat Dec 29 02:23:48 2007 +0000
+++ b/docs/man3/SDL_SetVideoMode.3	Sat Dec 29 02:34:53 2007 +0000
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 .TH "SDL_SetVideoMode" "3" "Tue 11 Sep 2001, 23:01" "SDL" "SDL API Reference" 
 .SH "NAME"
-SDL_SetVideoMode\- Set up a video mode with the specified width, height and bits-per-pixel\&.
+SDL_SetVideoMode \- Set up a video mode with the specified width, height and bits-per-pixel\&.
 .SH "SYNOPSIS"
 .PP
 \fB#include "SDL\&.h"