Man pages are a holdover from UNIX.
Info pages are the GNU Linux documentation solution you're looking for,
but they require that the info program is installed. Red Hat
distributions are very good about installing info and info pages.
My only gripe with info pages is they require me to know how to use
GNU's editor emacs, since info uses emacs navigation techniques. Info
pages are structured and detailed and I believe they are the solution
you're expecting, that are causing your gripes with man pages.
Since I don't want to have to learn emacs key commands every time I need
to read info pages (cause I don't need to use them often enough to
remember all the keyboard commands), I cheat and look for them online.
Google to the rescue!! LOL
John
Dos-Man 64 wrote:
On Feb 20, 12:23 pm, Robert Citek <[email protected]> wrote:
It's like what the man pages should have been: organized by context
and with meaningful examples.
Regards,
- Robert
Man pages are one of my pet peeves with linux. A horrid documentation
system. They're just glorified text files! A lot of programmers
don't seem to do a good job of documenting their programs, or perhaps
they are just lazy? Pairing them up with man pages is just a disaster.
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