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I'd love to be able to type: man ffmpeg "-ss" And have it jump right to the -ss option so I can see the expected format. For me the 99+% use case of man i
by ryandrake 2y ago
I'd love to be able to type:
man ffmpeg "-ss"
And have it jump right to the -ss option so I can see the expected format. For me the 99+% use case of man is to look up parameters of a command line or parameters of a programming function call. It's shocking that the UX for what I presume is the single most used use case is so broken.
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- sudahtigabulan 2y agoDoes searching with /-ss not do this well enough? For options, the first hit often is the description. When it's not, filtering with & can give you an idea how much further it is, so you can repeat the search with n. It's not an exact, "semantic" jump, but I find it good enough.
- ryandrake 2y agoSometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes the application has options like -o and --original and --output, and they are littered throughout the man page, so if I only want -o, I'm getting dozens of false positives.