You can change the section search order with the SECTION directive in /etc/man_db.conf, or you can override that global setting with the MANSECT environment var

You can change the section search order with the SECTION directive in /etc/man_db.conf, or you can override that global setting with the MANSECT environment variable. I just learned this from "man man". :) I'm personally tempted to put "2 3" ahead of the rest, because most of the time I'm just trying to refresh my memory on function parameters.