On May 21, 2007, at 11:16 AM, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
* Sean O'Rourke <sorou...@cs.ucsd.edu> [2007-05-21 17:25]:
David Cantrell <da...@cantrell.org.uk> writes:
The big problem with emacs is that it looks like that most
unhelpful of "help" systems, GNU info.
Meh, I personally prefer it to a wad of randomly-structured
HTML,
My ideal looks like this:
* Manpage with usage/synopsis
* For simple software, an overview/examples and full reference
in the manpage
* For anything complex, a man page *section* for the software, and a
copy of man that doesn't freak out over "man tcl canvas" or "man perl
commands" or whatever.
* For anything complex, a brief reference in the manpage and
narrative docs written in DocBook or something similar and
rendered to HTML for perusal
* When this is considered appropriate, then a man command that runs
"groff -Tlatin1 -mWhatever /usr/share/doc/foo/bar.whatever" when you
run "man foo bar".
I hate man pages that refer to a document that you can't get to in man.
