Well, isn't this a good reason to emphasize the difference between man
and help?
Not finding "cd" in a man page means that it is a shell internal; this
could be stated as an explicite reason why it doesn't come with its own
manpage.
Perhaps a note of caution to the novice reader could be added i
Hi All,
in a follow-up to my last message I just want to give one real-world
example of a very terse manpage, "for the initiated reader only."
Take refer(1).
It starts with
NAME
refer - preprocess bibliographic references for groff
DESCRIPTION
This file documents the GNU ve
Hi, Branden,
thank you very much for your detailed answer!
On 23/05/2021 10:27, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
I wanted to have a better understanding of the current state of groff,
and downloaded groff-1.23.0 from
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git, following the link from
https://www.g
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
Good evening and Hello.
Steffen Nurpmeso wrote in
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||> 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.
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||That's certa
On Sun, May 23, 2021, Oliver Corff wrote:
> in a follow-up to my last message I just want to give one
> real-world example of a very terse manpage, "for the initiated
> reader only."
>
> Take refer(1).
> Terseness is nice, but in the case presented here the first paragraph of
> DESCRIPTION in the
