On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 08:17:46 +0100 (CET), Jesús Guerrero wrote: > Well, in that sense, ALL the man pages of for anything that's more > complext than ls will be horrible. There's no way to can shorten > it unless you take features off from bash. It's a very powerful > shell. > > Same goes for my other example: fvwm.
And for mplayer/mencoder. The problem is that man pages are single pages and therefore only suitable for fairly short documents. The alternative, as used by zsh, is to split the information into several man pages, then you never know which one to look at. procmail is a good example of how to do this badly, with procmailrc's documentation being split across three man pages. That's why info is a much better format for complex or multipurpose programs. You'd expect to find a list of contents, chapters and an index in a printed reference book, electronic documentation should be no different. -- Neil Bothwick The sooner you fall behind the more time you'll have to catch up.
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