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Something I like about tldr is that tldr pages are short enough to not necessitate using a pager, so you can print the tldr of a command and read it while typin
by catalogia 7y ago
Something I like about tldr is that tldr pages are short enough to not necessitate using a pager, so you can print the tldr of a command and read it while typing the command in the same terminal emulator.
I know you can disable the pager for man, but the typical manpage is going to be fairly long anyway so the pager is generally desired. I suppose you could pipe man through head to just print out the first section, but honestly tldr seems to fill this niche better than I see that working.
- jopsen 7y agoBut they are not system specific... I don't need `tldr opkg` on my system. In fact, having pages I don't need just causes confusion. Moreover, commands can have system specific names.
- catalogia 7y agoMy tldr client has a --platform flag that takes 'linux, osx, sunos, or common'. So there is some support there for platform-specific tldr pages at least. Also my tdlr-pages checkout is only 19MB, so I'm not too concerned about bloat. I'm not really sure how having tldr's for irrelevant commands would be a problem, maybe with some shell autocompletions? Maybe there is a way you could prune the tldr-pages checkout? I guess all I can really say is tldr works really well for me and I like it a lot. Nothing is perfect, but tldr is quite nice despite some warts.