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.

.TH "SDL_JoystickUpdate" "3" "Tue 11 Sep 2001, 23:00" "SDL" "SDL API Reference" 
.SH "NAME"
SDL_JoystickUpdate \- Updates the state of all joysticks
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.PP
\fB#include "SDL\&.h"
.sp
\fBvoid \fBSDL_JoystickUpdate\fP\fR(\fBvoid\fR);
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.PP
Updates the state(position, buttons, etc\&.) of all open joysticks\&. If joystick events have been enabled with \fI\fBSDL_JoystickEventState\fP\fR then this is called automatically in the event loop\&.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.PP
\fI\fBSDL_JoystickEventState\fP\fR
...\" created by instant / docbook-to-man, Tue 11 Sep 2001, 23:00