Re: man-intro (was: getting more out of man pages with less(1) )

2021-05-28 Thread Larry Kollar
James K. Lowden wrote: > Attached is a straw man 1st draft of what an introduction to the man > system might look like. If it clears the threshold of raspberries, > perhaps we can mold it into something useful. > > I think the page should be called man-intro, or intro-man. (Need > help?

Re: getting more out of man pages with less(1) (was: [bug #59962] soelim(1) man page uses pic diagram--should it?)

2021-05-26 Thread Mike
On 17 May 12:50, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > [looping in linux-man@ because issues of user education and topics that > fall between project/man page stools come up below] > > At 2021-05-16T20:29:30-0500, Dave Kemper wrote: > > This stuff about less(1) is only tangential to groff, but it did come

Re: getting more out of man pages with less(1)

2021-05-24 Thread Steffen Nurpmeso
Hey. Steffen Nurpmeso wrote in <20210523212903.58vrh%stef...@sdaoden.eu>: |Steffen Nurpmeso wrote in | <20210523004836.gta8l%stef...@sdaoden.eu>: | ... |||> Good idea. I've further changed the Subject: to reflect the flow \ |||> of the |||> discussion. || ... |||> I also wonder if the pa

Re: getting more out of man pages with less(1)

2021-05-23 Thread Steffen Nurpmeso
Good evening and Hello. Steffen Nurpmeso wrote in <20210523004836.gta8l%stef...@sdaoden.eu>: ... ||> Good idea. I've further changed the Subject: to reflect the flow of the ||> discussion. | ... ||> I also wonder if the pager wars are basically over and less(1) won them. || ||That's certa

Re: getting more out of man pages with less(1)

2021-05-23 Thread Steffen Nurpmeso
Steffen Nurpmeso wrote in <20210523212903.58vrh%stef...@sdaoden.eu>: |Good evening and Hello. And thanks to Mario Blättermann, replying to the mail unrevealed a bug that is present in the MUA i maintain since at least 2003 (nail 10.05)! A nice Monday i wish. (And happy 80th birthday, Bob Dylan

Re: getting more out of man pages with less(1)

2021-05-22 Thread Steffen Nurpmeso
Hello. |> Good idea. I've further changed the Subject: to reflect the flow of the |> discussion. ... |> I also wonder if the pager wars are basically over and less(1) won them. | |That's certainly what I thought... .. Ever since less(1) started supporting OSC 8 "Hyperlinks in Terminal Emu

Re: man-intro (was: getting more out of man pages with less(1) )

2021-05-22 Thread Dave Kemper
On 5/17/21, James K. Lowden wrote: > Attached is a straw man 1st draft of what an introduction to the man > system might look like. If it clears the threshold of raspberries, > perhaps we can mold it into something useful. I think it looks great! I'm admittedly not its target audience, as I hav

Re: getting more out of man pages with less(1) (was: [bug #59962] soelim(1) man page uses pic diagram--should it?)

2021-05-17 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2021 17 May 11:50 -0500, Dave Kemper wrote: > Maybe less's build system has a switch to compile in a different > default? Maybe this is a recent change? Maybe I'm completely wrong? > I haven't looked at the source or built it myself from github; I'm > going by the behavior on my systems, beh

Re: man-intro (was: getting more out of man pages with less(1) )

2021-05-17 Thread James K. Lowden
On Mon, 17 May 2021 16:24:34 +1200 "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" wrote: > > Maybe Michael or Alejandro can advise regarding where they think a > > good place for a man page utilization tutorial would be. > > If any place, I think intro(1) would be most appropriate, or, > failing that, an initial

Re: getting more out of man pages with less(1) (was: [bug #59962] soelim(1) man page uses pic diagram--should it?)

2021-05-17 Thread Dave Kemper
On 5/16/21, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > At 2021-05-16T20:29:30-0500, Dave Kemper wrote: >> less's default is for searches to be case-sensitive. Its -i option >> (which can be given on the command line or while less is running) is >> what activates the behavior described above. A user or a distr

Re: getting more out of man pages with less(1) (was: [bug #59962] soelim(1) man page uses pic diagram--should it?)

2021-05-16 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
Hi Branden, On 5/17/21 2:50 PM, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > [looping in linux-man@ because issues of user education and topics that > fall between project/man page stools come up below] > > At 2021-05-16T20:29:30-0500, Dave Kemper wrote: >> This stuff about less(1) is only tangential to groff, b

getting more out of man pages with less(1) (was: [bug #59962] soelim(1) man page uses pic diagram--should it?)

2021-05-16 Thread G. Branden Robinson
[looping in linux-man@ because issues of user education and topics that fall between project/man page stools come up below] At 2021-05-16T20:29:30-0500, Dave Kemper wrote: > This stuff about less(1) is only tangential to groff, but it did come > up in the context of viewing man pages, so I'm keepi