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Info pages are better for that.

• ams6110 10y ago
  Info pages should be banished from the face of the earth. https://xkcd.com/912/ https://xkcd.com/912/
  • kobeya 10y ago
    I don't get it. The info pages usually have way more information available, and are proper software manuals with plenty of worked out examples, voluminous descriptive text, and hyperlinks to related resources. Try `info sed` and compare that with the bare breakdown of command line options and basic syntax of `man sed`. I'm not sure what that comic has to do with anything.
    • ams6110 10y ago
      Man pages are (in my experience) almost always viewed on a text console or terminal. Info pages work poorly there, and it's just frustrating to be looking for some information in a man page and have to start up some other program with a different UX to complete the task. Man page standards have places for "See also" and "Examples" and that is good enough.