13 Dec
2011
13 Dec
'11
9:08 p.m.
On 12/13/2011 8:54 PM, Toby Thain wrote:
On 13/12/11 11:04 PM, David Riley wrote:
I just wish UNIX man pages were as well written and as all-encompassing
as the online documentation available on my Lisp machine. Basically
three or four feet worth of the printed manual set available at a
keypress (or mouse click) or two, thoroughly indexed and
cross-referenced, viewable directly at the command prompt (even while in
the middle of typing a command -- invaluable when you've forgotten how
something works halfway through) from within the editor, or inside the
Document Examiner, with hypertext, formatting, diagrams, etc... a lovely
system and well ahead of its time.
- Josh
On Dec 13, 2011, at 20:51, Toby Thain<toby at telegraphics.com.au> wrote:
That's odd. I thought you'd prefer turgid, rambling, incorrect crud! :) Most Linux distros I've seen have very good
man page sets. And even
better: Texinfo!
(Yes, I proudly fly the Team Texinfo flag...)
I mean, it's OK. I think I prefer well-written, concise man pages
(like OpenBSD's, which are quite good.