On Thu, 16 May 2002, Jon Carnes wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> > While I'm at it, I want to speak on the topic of "laziness" vs. "lack
> of
> > knowledge" vs. "finding a needle in a haystack". Whenever I attempt to try
> > and find something in one of those "Man" files I always feel like I'm
> > searching for the proverbial "needle in a haystack".
>
> man -k <keyword> |grep <another_keyword>
Or just man "program" and use the keyboard controls of the pager (usually
"less") -- for example the / command to search for a string/regexp.
But I agree that some man pages are better than others. I like the ones
where the most common/necessary options are listed first, then followed by
the complete listing of every option under the sun.
One of the GNU things that I *absolutely detest* is the movement to remove
stuff from man pages, and only include documentation in the bloated "info"
pages. The GNOME help browser is okay for reading infopages -- IF you
happen to be in X. There's no way to read the info pages from the command
line! (Unless you use emacs or something, which I refuse to do just to
read some friggin documentation!)
--Jeremy
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