Maris Nartiss wrote:

> Sorry for being from year 2008, but how many GRASS users still use man
> pages to read how to use GRASS modules? There are some really good
> text-based web browsers (links - my favorite), that support tables
> etc. thus eliminating need of man pages at all.

As an XEmacs user, I find e.g.

        C-h RET d.vect RET

faster and easier to use than

        M-x w3-find-file RET /opt/grass-6.3.svn/docs/html/d.vect.html RET

even with filename completion.

Also, the manpages don't have the blinding white background of the
GRASS HTML files.

-- 
Glynn Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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