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Re:Um – Create your own man pages so you can remember how to... by dijit on Monday August 20, 2018 @02:25AM (#17798065)
I find that this is something openBSD gets /really/ right. In general the man pages in BSD are phenomenal.

What happened to ‘info’ pages. I hated it, but wasn’t that supposed to address these kinds of issues with examples?

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Re:Um – Create your own man pages so you can remember how to... by JoshMnem on Monday August 20, 2018 @08:30AM (#17799371)
Info pages are still there.

    $ info grep
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Re:Um – Create your own man pages so you can remember how to... by arminiusreturns on Monday August 20, 2018 @10:37AM (#17800234)
Info is much better than man, but keep in mind it's only covering gnu coreutils (which isn't a bad thing!)
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Re:Um – Create your own man pages so you can remember how to... by dijit on Monday August 20, 2018 @01:58PM (#17802167)
Why is info better than man?
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Re:Um – Create your own man pages so you can remember how to... by wrycoder on Saturday August 25, 2018 @06:27PM (#17842919)
The man page for gcc goes on and on. Try it.

The info for gcc is a printed book, which is also accessible in the shell as hypertext (which predates html).

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Re:Um – Create your own man pages so you can remember how to... by kaushalmodi on Monday August 20, 2018 @10:00PM (#17806227)
Better search and better organization of the document (TOC, index search, etc.). And reading/searching Info manuals is a lot more convenient in Emacs Info-mode.
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Re:Um – Create your own man pages so you can remember how to... by jwilk on Monday August 20, 2018 @10:58AM (#17800464)
Huh? grep is not part of coreutils.
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Re:Um – Create your own man pages so you can remember how to... by arminiusreturns on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @12:25PM (#17819861)
I know this is late but you are right. For some reason I thought info was only fore coreutils, but it seems I was wrong. I only ever used it for coreutils, but hey, thats good news to me!
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