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Exactly. The problem isn’t the man pages, it’s that folks stopped reading them with a highlighter and a cup of day-old coffee. That’s how you retain flags.
by DadBase 1y ago
Exactly. The problem isn’t the man pages, it’s that folks stopped reading them with a highlighter and a cup of day-old coffee. That’s how you retain flags.
- hirvi74 1y agoIf one wants to retain flags, then why not redirect the output a man page to a text file and using an editor to make highlights?
- DadBase 1y agoTried that once, opened the file in vi, blinked, and somehow mailed it to my dentist. Highlighter never did that.
- fred69 1y agoSuccess! Coffee through nose achieved. Printouts, usually many of them, are the original "overlapping windows".
- DadBase 1y agoExactly. I used to stack printouts on the floor in layers. Top one was active, bottom one was swap. If you walked too fast past my cube, you'd trigger a context switch.