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One of the more obscure things OpenBSD man does is provide tags to the pager(less). So you can do things like ":t test" in man ksh and end up right at that sect
by somat 10mo ago
One of the more obscure things OpenBSD man does is provide tags to the pager(less). So you can do things like ":t test" in man ksh and end up right at that section.
However while I think the feature is neat, a clever use of an existing feature, I never use it. I think it is sort of the same as info pages and why the technologically superior solution sort of lost to the stupider simpler man pages. Having a simple uniform interface "press / to search, all information in one document" is far less cognitively distracting than the better system.
And final thoughts: if unfamiliar the bsd's use the mdoc set of troff macros to build semantic man pages. sort of like how latex lets you build semantic documents on the tex typesetting engine. Where linux man pages are usually plain troff. OpenBSD actually went one step further and now uses a specific mandoc program to render them rather than the troff + mdoc macros that was used before.
https://man.openbsd.org/mdoc https://man.openbsd.org/mdoc