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Re:Funding restored for man-page maintenance by nindalf on Saturday November 09, 2024 @03:02AM (#42093163)
Apropos means “with reference to”. Maybe you meant “appropriate”?
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Re:Funding restored for man-page maintenance by isThereClarity on Saturday November 09, 2024 @03:26AM (#42093255)
Perhaps, but there’s a light hearted moment going on.

Context

- https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/roff.7.html

- https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/more.1.html

- https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/less.1.html

- https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/apropos.1.html

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Re:Funding restored for man-page maintenance by kevin_thibedeau on Saturday November 09, 2024 @09:42AM (#42094667)
man apropos.
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Re:Funding restored for man-page maintenance by shkkmo on Saturday November 09, 2024 @10:34AM (#42094943)
That's only when used as a preposition. When used as an adjective it is more or less a synonym for "appropriate" and works fine in this context.
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