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I especially like what he says about manpages - the FSF trying to phase out manpages in favor of its proprietary texinfo system has been a real pain. (I hesita
by billswift 17y ago
I especially like what he says about manpages - the FSF trying to phase out manpages in favor of its proprietary texinfo system has been a real pain. (I hesitated to use "proprietary" here because of its open-source-world use as the opposite to free, but no other word actually fits as well).
- gchpaco 17y agoIn partial defense of Texinfo, manpages are terrible at the kind of documents the FSF is trying to write with Texinfo. (man zshall, for example, is spastically organized and tries to be reference and tutorial at once, which doesn't work well). But you do need the man pages as well for quick reference.