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It would be interesting to take a step back and consider what man pages actually are. Are they documentation structured in a specific way, dating back to Unix o
by mongol 7y ago
It would be interesting to take a step back and consider what man pages actually are. Are they documentation structured in a specific way, dating back to Unix origins, or are they what the user sees if they type "man command" on the command line? Because if we consider the latter, I think it will be much easier to see radical improvement of the "man experience"
If I type "man ps" I see
Man: find all matching manual pages (set MAN_POSIXLY_CORRECT to avoid this)
* ps (1)
ps (1p)
Man: What manual page do you want?
What if I instead saw
Man: find all matching manual pages (set MAN_POSIXLY_CORRECT to avoid this)
* ps (1)
ps (1.tldr)
ps (1p)
Man: What manual page do you want?
where the man command retrieved that information from the TLDR-pages site?
In the last years we have seen many innovative Rust re-implementations of classical commands such as cat, find, grep. Maybe the man command is next up?
- teddyh 7y agoman apropos