I find man pages quite useful myself. Whatever lack of hypertext functionality doesn't bother me as I can just press / to search for text (in my distro). Really you can filter man pages through alternate editors; say man fsck | nano or man tunefs | less
----- Original Message ---- From: Blues Renegade <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sat, February 20, 2010 3:21:34 PM Subject: Re: [lug:16013] Re: Question about how the shells deal with file names containing spaces. 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. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup
