[tex-live] problem with texdoc

[Takuto ASAKURA]

Hi,

> Truthfully, I expected it to throw a "no-found-nothing" error

If you want to disable the fuzzy search feature, you can set

	fuzzy_level = 0

in your own texdoc.cnf. Please see the documentation for the details.

The reason that Texdoc gives different results for each invocation is that
the program selects the final result randomly from the candidates which have
the same Levenshtein distances to the (mistyped) input keyword; this is
because it is impossible to decide the best one in those candidates.

> In windows the situation is a bit different, besides showing different files in 
> each call, if it is done with administrator privileges (using cmd) it throws 
> a "many windows open" error.

On the other hand, I heard this issue for the first time. It seems that this
problem is NOT related to the fuzzy search feature.

I examined a bit on my Windows PC and found that a "Too many argument in
command line" error always occur for `texdoc 2up`. Is this the problem you're
talking about?

Best,
Takuto

> On 2018/11/12, at 2:35, Pablo Alfonso González Luengo <pablgonz at educarchile.cl> wrote:
> 
> > What do you expect if you type "texdoc 1234"?
> Truthfully, I expected it to throw a "no-found-nothing" error or to show 
> me a list of names that contained "1234" ... it was just an example
> > Recent versions of texdoc support fuzzy search and even return
> > something if there is a typo in the search string.
> This is new, I had not noticed
> > What I absolutely don't understand is why every invocation provides a
> > different result.  Yes, I can reproduce the behavior.
> > BTW, there is a dedicated mailing list for texdoc
> >   http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/texdoc
> > but AFAIK Takuto is listening here as well.
> Nor had I noticed that "texdoc" had a list of its own (a thousand apologies). 
> In windows the situation is a bit different, besides showing different files in 
> each call, if it is done with administrator privileges (using cmd) it throws 
> a "many windows open" error.
> Saludos