svn commit: r40082 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports

[Benedict Reuschling]

Author: bcr
Date: Sun Nov 18 17:57:31 2012
New Revision: 40082
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/40082

Log:
  Add a section describing the use of the quicksearch feature to
  find ports.
  
  PR:		docs/173704
  Submitted by:	Edward (edward rdtan net)

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports/chapter.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports/chapter.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports/chapter.xml	Sun Nov 18 17:29:59 2012	(r40081)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports/chapter.xml	Sun Nov 18 17:57:31 2012	(r40082)
@@ -349,17 +349,33 @@ R-deps: </screen>
 	  provided is not needed in order to install the port, so it
 	  will not be covered here.</para>
 
+	<para>Alternatively, there is another search feature from
+	  ports that achieves the same purpose but with less noise,
+	  the <command>quicksearch</command> feature.  This feature
+	  accepts the same parameter as the <command>search</command>
+	  feature.  For example, searching for <command>lsof</command>
+	  would return:</para>
+
+	  <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>cd /usr/ports</userinput>
+&prompt.root; <userinput>make quicksearch name=lsof</userinput>
+Port:   lsof-4.87.a,7
+Path:   /usr/ports/sysutils/lsof
+Info:   Lists information about open files (similar to fstat(1))</screen>
+
 	<para>For more in-depth searching you can also use
 	  <command>make <maketarget>search</maketarget>
-	    key=<replaceable>string</replaceable></command> where
+	  key=<replaceable>string</replaceable></command> or
+	  <command>make <maketarget>quicksearch</maketarget>
+	  key=<replaceable>string</replaceable></command>, where
 	  <replaceable>string</replaceable> is some text to search
 	  for.  This searches port names, comments, descriptions and
 	  dependencies and can be used to find ports which relate to a
 	  particular subject if you do not know the name of the
 	  program you are looking for.</para>
 
-	<para>In both of these cases, the search string is
-	  case-insensitive.  Searching for <quote>LSOF</quote> will
+	<para>In both of these cases (<maketarget>search</maketarget>
+	  and <maketarget>quicksearch</maketarget>), the search string
+	  is case-insensitive.  Searching for <quote>LSOF</quote> will
 	  yield the same results as searching for
 	  <quote>lsof</quote>.</para>
       </listitem>