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What most manuals on the web get wrong is not offering a single-page version, so you're forced to use clumsy search engines (on-site or third party) to search t
by lupusreal 2y ago
What most manuals on the web get wrong is not offering a single-page version, so you're forced to use clumsy search engines (on-site or third party) to search through the document. With manpages, the whole manual is usually in one document. Some big programs split it, usually for the worse.
- RunningDroid 2y ago> Some big programs split it, usually for the worse. For some reason ZSH provides split manpages and a concatenated manpage (zshall, iirc.) I personally just use the concatenated manpage
- BeetleB 2y ago> What most manuals on the web get wrong is not offering a single-page version Obligatory: https://blog.nawaz.org/posts/2025/Apr/an-appeal-to-documentation-owners/ https://blog.nawaz.org/posts/2025/Apr/an-appeal-to-documenta...
- lupusreal 2y ago> Printing out the documentation Big time. I don't do that very often anymore, but it used to be how I read all documentation. There is a lot to be said for being able to flip through physical pages with a highlighter in hand.