> On Aug 14, 2019, at 7:26 PM, Ingo Schwarze <schwa...@usta.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> i never looked at xman(1) nor did i ever use it.
>
> But oh gawd...
>
> That whole thing is totally broken.
> Nothing about it works at all.
>
> For example, try to view the strlcat(3) manual page:
> start xman(1), hit Ctrl-S, type "strlcat", click "Manual Page".
> The response is "No manual entry for strlcat".
>
> It attempts to reimplement man(1) in a very poor way.
> It uses the old man.conf(5) format that we stopped supporting
> years ago. I'm sure that list of issues is far from complete.
>
> Fixing it seems like a major undertaking - and a complete waste of time.
> I'm mean, what's the point? Just run man(1) in an xterm(1). That
> actually works and has so much more useful features.
>
> Consequently, i strongly suggest that we simply delete the whole
> program from OpenBSD without any replacement. That is what we usually
> do with software that is broken, obviously unmaintained, and useless.
>
> Any objections?
>
> Yours,
> Ingo
>
Dumpster fires can be handled with orbital strikes. No objection from me, but I
haven't tried xman in decades.
.... Ken
