Paul LeoNerd Evans wrote:
> I have been using regexps for about 4 years now, and even I can't
> understand regex(7).
>
> I therefore propose a rewrite, to be much longer, a much gentler
> introduction for people who don't understand them, to include plenty of
> examples to illustrate, and generally improve the whole thing.
>
> I've not done a great amount of manpage writing before, other than lots
> of POD in perl code, that gets translated. But I have a far amount of
> experience at writing documentation on code (API docs), and lots of
> experience at using REs. People I meet on IRC say they've learned more
> from a 30second 5line rant of mine than in the entire manpage.
>
> Perhaps I could write a replacement for debian?
I'd rather like you to get in touch with Michael Kerrisk, so that
the resulting page will pass his quality checks and can be included
in the upstream man-pages package as well instead of a local Debian
version.
Regards,
Joey
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