On Thursday 01 May 2008, Mahesh T. Pai wrote:
[snip]
Man!!! As if loving man pages was a pre-requisite for loving the OS!!!
It's not just man. I also hate apropos. Amd I think GNU /bin/yes is
buggy and lacks important features.
-Taj.
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ilugd
On Thursday 01 May 2008, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
On 30-Apr-08, at 10:03 PM, Sirtaj Singh Kang wrote:
I am here to destroy my little cred as a long-time unix-lover with a
single statement: I really don't like man pages.
don't tell me you have stopped wearing a hair shirt and no longer
I am here to destroy my little cred as a long-time unix-lover with a
single statement: I really don't like man pages.
-- rant, please ignore -
They are sometimes nice as a reference, terrible as tutorials, and very
bad for searching for specific pieces of information when you don't know
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Sirtaj == Sirtaj Singh Kang [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Sirtaj What I am looking for is something that can convert a given man
page to
Sirtaj HTML or some other similar format, with such new-fangled features
like
Sirtaj a useful table of
On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल wrote:
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man2html[1], konqueror already does this, when you do, man:ls .
I'm aware of that, and yes it's a pretty major improvement from reading
the page in a terminal, but it still doesn't do TOC or hyperlinks of
any kind.
I grok the
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 10:20 PM, Sirtaj Singh Kang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल wrote:
[snip]
man2html[1], konqueror already does this, when you do, man:ls .
I'm aware of that, and yes it's a pretty major improvement from reading
the page
On 30-Apr-08, at 10:03 PM, Sirtaj Singh Kang wrote:
I am here to destroy my little cred as a long-time unix-lover with a
single statement: I really don't like man pages.
don't tell me you have stopped wearing a hair shirt and no longer
sleep on a bed of nails. Shame on you.
--
regards
