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.

/* Print out all the keysyms we have, just to verify them */

#include <stdio.h>
#include <ctype.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>

#include "SDL.h"

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
	SDLKey key;

	if ( SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_VIDEO) < 0 ) {
		fprintf(stderr, "Couldn't initialize SDL: %s\n",
							SDL_GetError());
		exit(1);
	}
	for ( key=SDLK_FIRST; key<SDLK_LAST; ++key ) {
		printf("Key #%d, \"%s\"\n", key, SDL_GetKeyName(key));
	}
	SDL_Quit();
	return(0);
}