Re:Simplified and community-driven man pages
by agnivade on Monday November 27, 2017 @10:36AM
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Maintainer here.
> This TLDR tool definitely needs to exist, but in conjunction with man pages, not as a replacement.
tldr is _exactly_ that. We do not and will not aim to replace man pages. We have a hard limit of 8 examples at max for every command. Therefore, our scope is very limited and we try to mention the 8 most important and practical examples a beginner needs to know for a command.
If someone needs to go deeper, man pages are always there.
> This TLDR tool definitely needs to exist, but in conjunction with man pages, not as a replacement.
tldr is _exactly_ that. We do not and will not aim to replace man pages. We have a hard limit of 8 examples at max for every command. Therefore, our scope is very limited and we try to mention the 8 most important and practical examples a beginner needs to know for a command.
If someone needs to go deeper, man pages are always there.