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I low key agree on this, because I think it doesn’t matter and you have to look up the meaning anyway. English-like options may make you think you already know
by wruza 2y ago
I low key agree on this, because I think it doesn’t matter and you have to look up the meaning anyway. English-like options may make you think you already know the details but usually you don’t. If there’s a need to develop in sh/bash/etc, then a modern solution would be to make something like a language server for it which could “go to definition” right into a man page section, or combine docs for all used options in a single popup/aux window. Of course it’s not possible for every man page, since some of these are written in too free form. Iow, it’s shell, whatever you program here in more than two lines you’d better program in python instead (and I’m saying this as a low key python hater).