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Re: Manual Pages

From: Jeff Smith <jsmith_at_robotronics.com>
Date: 2007-02-07 16:59:13 CET

On Wednesday 24 January 2007 08:45, B. Smith-Mannschott wrote:
> On 1/24/07, Jeff Smith <jsmith@robotronics.com> wrote:
> > First of all, you said "someone *already* wrote such manual
> > pages", but then you point to HTML pages. Do you not understand
> > the difference between "man" and "HTML"?
>
> Do you not understand the difference between HTML, and the and
> DocBookXML sources it was generated from?  (I'm afraid you set
> yourself up for that retort.)

Yeah :)
It was more of a deliberate generalization, thinking, "nobody writes
HTML anymore, just other markups that look the same to end viewer, or
are translated to)

And sorry Nadav Har'El, I misread you. I think their reason for not
providing man pages is similar to their not providing the option I
asked for to not import "Inconsistent line end" formats. It's just
not in the direction they want to go.

> That may be so, but I still am mildly annoyed every time I type man
> FOO and get a "go use info" or worse, a URL. I'm at the command line
> or in EMACS a lot. Is it so wrong to want a concise reference within
> easy convenient reach? (Old habits die hard. I guess my virtual
> beard is showing.)

I was annoyed too, and I've only done UNIX/Linux since 1994 (not
saying I don't normally have a beard). I've been trying to get used
to looking first in info, so I'm less annoyed. I don't like info in
the shell, but in SUSE/KDE I press Alt-F2, run "##svn". Of course
then I was disappointed that it still gave no information except
referral, so I really should be complaining that they have avoided
man and info docs.

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