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Funnily enough, I commented elsewhere shortly after the one you responded to about man commands versus help text: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30999162
by saghm 5y ago
Funnily enough, I commented elsewhere shortly after the one you responded to about man commands versus help text: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30999162 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30999162
I won't bother restating the whole thing here, but basically, having a giant wall of text dumped into a pager is not super ergonomic if you just want to look at a couple examples while typing. Man pages are definitely useful, but for a different type of thing.