All, For what it is worth, I like to have an automatic list of manual pages presented when there is more than one matching page available (similar to whatis) I also like to be able to select which page to display from the that list, without having to type 'man pg name' again. This has always been a feature on some oh the other distros. I couldn't find anything that would do that on Arch, so I wrote a small function that can be aliased to provide the functionality. If you're interested, it is: ## function to alias as man on arch to provide # user selection of available man pages manselect() { [ -z "$1" ] && return 1 if [ -z "$2" ]; then local timeout=5 local pgs=( $(whatis "$1" | sed -e 's/^.*[(]//' -e 's/[)].*$//') ) local npgs=${#pgs[@]} [ $npgs -eq 0 ] && return 1 local pg=${pgs[0]} if [ $npgs -eq 1 ]; then /usr/bin/man $pg "$1" else local line while read -r line; do printf " %s\n" "${line%)*})" done < <(whatis "$1") printf "Select a man page (%s): " "$pg" read -t $timeout ans && pg=$ans || echo "" /usr/bin/man $pg "$1" fi else if [ ${1:0:1} -eq ${1:0:1} ] >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then /usr/bin/man $1 "$2" else printf "error: invalid man page specification: '%s'\n" "man $1 $2" fi fi } I just include it as a function in .bashrc and then provide an alias: alias man='manselect' You can adjust the order the man pages are presented in by adjusting the SECTION order in /etc/man_db.conf. This can tailor the order of which page is shown by default if no selection is made. Thought I would pass it along... -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.