On Thu 27 Jan 2011 20:25, Mark Harig <[email protected]> writes: > Here are some other language interpreters that have manual pages: > > awk, bash, bc, clisp, dc, emacs, make > > "emacs" and "make" follow the terse approach, while the others do not. > These can be examined to help decide whether you would prefer for those > programs to have a terse manual page or not.
For what it's worth, I think a more complete man page is better for users. However I personally don't want to maintain a man page. If you are interested in working on the man page though, by all means, let's have a nice one! > Speaking of on-line manuals, I would like to point to Org-mode's manual, > which has melded info and HTML together so that info keyboard > commands can be used to move through the manual (that is, some > commands, such as 'n', 'p', 'u', 't', '1', '2', but not all), while > still allowing > mouse users to click on links. > > http://orgmode.org/guide/index.html > > This is something I would like to see all GNU online manuals that > are derived from texinfo files aspire to. Can a guile version of > http://orgmode.org/org-keys.js be written? Neat! Yes is the answer; but it would be best if this made its way into makeinfo itself. I hear makeinfo is about to undergo a new release -- see http://www.gnu.org/bulletins/gnustatus-2011-01.html#Texinfo -- with a new more active maintenance, so perhaps now is the hour for great GNU manuals, across the board! Cheers, Andy -- http://wingolog.org/
