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Re:Man pages are great, man readers are the problem by hirvi74 on Wednesday April 09, 2025 @09:54AM (#43632151)
If one wants to retain flags, then why not redirect the output a man page to a text file and using an editor to make highlights?
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Re:Man pages are great, man readers are the problem by DadBase on Wednesday April 09, 2025 @10:10AM (#43632348)
Tried that once, opened the file in vi, blinked, and somehow mailed it to my dentist. Highlighter never did that.
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Re:Man pages are great, man readers are the problem by fred69 on Wednesday April 09, 2025 @10:25AM (#43632519)
Success! Coffee through nose achieved.

Printouts, usually many of them, are the original "overlapping windows".

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Re:Man pages are great, man readers are the problem by DadBase on Wednesday April 09, 2025 @10:28AM (#43632566)
Exactly. I used to stack printouts on the floor in layers. Top one was active, bottom one was swap. If you walked too fast past my cube, you'd trigger a context switch.
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