Re: [Groff] colorized man pages

2016-08-19 Thread Clarke Echols
Just because you can doesn't mean you should. With a world gone crazy over apps for this, apps for that, and apps to manage apps (I'm guessing because I've never owned a cell phone -- much less a smart phone) I see no need for it. But one factor nobody's mentioned is the fact that some users are

Re: [Groff] colorized man pages

2016-08-19 Thread Steffen Nurpmeso
walter harms wrote: |Am 19.08.2016 13:06, schrieb Steffen Nurpmeso: |> "James K. Lowden" wrote: |>|It's a little far afield, but some here might be interested in the |>|interest in manpages. mdoc has no color features, leaving folks to |>|resort to some pretty brutal techniques. |> I th

Re: [Groff] colorized man pages

2016-08-19 Thread John Gardner
Sick-humoured folks might get a laugh out of this gem of ignorance: http://npmjs.com/package/woman Only peripherally-related, but worth a laugh. Regarding what's being said: I agree with Ingo and Denis. The limited formatting of manpages is actually their best feature, because it forces authors

Re: [Groff] colorized man pages

2016-08-19 Thread Denis M. Wilson
An old quote: If you cannot make it clear with white chalk, you cannot make it clear with coloured chalk either.

Re: [Groff] colorized man pages

2016-08-19 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi James, James K. Lowden wrote on Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 12:07:22AM -0400: > http://boredzo.org/blog/archives/2016-08-15/colorized-man-pages-understood-and-customized I despise such pointless chatter. It makes a lot of stupid words about a trivial matter without being aware that a ready-to-use s

Re: [Groff] colorized man pages

2016-08-19 Thread walter harms
Am 19.08.2016 13:06, schrieb Steffen Nurpmeso: > "James K. Lowden" wrote: > > |http://boredzo.org/blog/archives/2016-08-15/colorized-man-pages-understood-a\ > |nd-customized > | > |https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12296000 > | > |It's a little far afield, but some here might be intere

Re: [Groff] colorized man pages

2016-08-19 Thread Steffen Nurpmeso
"James K. Lowden" wrote: |http://boredzo.org/blog/archives/2016-08-15/colorized-man-pages-understood-a\ |nd-customized | |https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12296000 | |It's a little far afield, but some here might be interested in the |interest in manpages. mdoc has no color features, l