> Which people do this? The ones that don't use man pages themselves, obviously. > Why do they do this? They couldn't fathom that there are people who are wo

> Which people do this? The ones that don't use man pages themselves, obviously. > Why do they do this? They couldn't fathom that there are people who are working mainly in terminal and don't want to leave it for reading the docs of every single tool they use. > Am I missing something amazing by tying myself to man pages as the first line of documentation? No, not really. > Are man pages that hard to write? Not harder than any other form of documentation, but an author needs to actually consider writing one, while HTML is a default form. What projects exactly you have in mind when ranting about crippled man pages?