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Having been using Linux for a couple of decades as well, i'd never give away manpages in the terminal. Any time i need a quick refresher ("was it -f or -F?") i
by znpy 2y ago
Having been using Linux for a couple of decades as well, i'd never give away manpages in the terminal.
Any time i need a quick refresher ("was it -f or -F?") i can just pause the current editor (ctrl-z) look up the manpage (man <whatever>), exit (q) and then go back (fg) to whatever i was doing.
Having a web browser is just useless annoyance in the workflow.
- spudlyo 2y agoI find it weird that most of my younger colleagues totally do not understand job control, and generally use just a subset of shell features in their day to day development work. I would wager they also don’t value man pages. I remember the blank stares I was met with when I suggested we create a man page for an extremely complex CLI tool we maintain. There was already an often out of date wiki page that people hated maintaining, nobody could understand why you wouldn’t just use that.