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... at which point, one does wonder why we use man at all instead of markdown.
by shadowgovt 2y ago
... at which point, one does wonder why we use man at all instead of markdown.
- lupusreal 2y agoConventions matter, manpages get indexed so you can access them easily with man readers. With raw markdown docs I have to go searching for the documentation myself.
- shadowgovt 2y agoTrue, but I don't think the gap on indexing Markdown docs is very large. In fact... man already supports two parsable languages for the pages themselves. It could, hypothetically, support three.