Hi, > Am 21.03.2017 um 09:24 schrieb Harald Dunkel <[email protected]>: > > Hi folks, > > I highly appreciate your work to provide excellent tools for > decades. > > There is one thing I would like to ask for, though: Would you > mind to support "full" man pages instead of the "full-docu-can- > be-found-in-info-or-on-the-web-only" pages (e.g. dd(1), cpio(1))?
I want to second this. Although I have a look at the info pages sometimes, it seems to be handy mostly on an US keyboard as the navigation is done often with brackets - this is not only one keystroke on german keyboards as you need the modifier key to reach it. I see the advantage of course, to get a nice output also in printed form from the same source and a better navigation to cross-references – once you get known to the navigation. A nice output of man pages one can get from man pages itself too (for german paper size): groff -man -Tps -P-pA4 <(zcat /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz) > ls.ps -- Reuti > Advantages: > > - no break in your regular workflow, regardless on which > unix-like system you are logged in or which man page you > try to access > > - no page breaks, but full documentation on a single page. > Its very easy to navigate. > > - focused on providing the information. The user interface > is provided by more or less, common to other tools. > > I am not asking you to drop the info pages, of course, but IMHO > keeping things simple and the DOTADIW approach should still be > considered as a major feature of Unix-like systems. > > > Please keep on your good work > Harri >
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