diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports/chapter.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports/chapter.xml
index 4ee8d4b7e6..015f3c9a00 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports/chapter.xml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports/chapter.xml
@@ -349,17 +349,33 @@ R-deps:
provided is not needed in order to install the port, so it
will not be covered here.
+ Alternatively, there is another search feature from
+ ports that achieves the same purpose but with less noise,
+ the quicksearch feature. This feature
+ accepts the same parameter as the search
+ feature. For example, searching for lsof
+ would return:
+
+ &prompt.root; cd /usr/ports
+&prompt.root; make quicksearch name=lsof
+Port: lsof-4.87.a,7
+Path: /usr/ports/sysutils/lsof
+Info: Lists information about open files (similar to fstat(1))
+
For more in-depth searching you can also use
make search
- key=string where
+ key=string or
+ make quicksearch
+ key=string, where
string 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.
- In both of these cases, the search string is
- case-insensitive. Searching for LSOF
will
+ In both of these cases (search
+ and quicksearch), the search string
+ is case-insensitive. Searching for LSOF
will
yield the same results as searching for
lsof
.