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From: despen on 15 Mar 2010 14:03 Grant Edwards <invalid(a)invalid.invalid> writes: > On 2010-03-15, unruh <unruh(a)wormhole.physics.ubc.ca> wrote: > >>> Does anybody ever bother to read Info pages? > > Only as a last resort. > >> It is one of those religious wars, like emacs/vi. And no, I suspect >> man pages are far more often read than info pages, not least because >> the info useage is so so cluncky ( unless you happen to love emacs) > > I've been a decades-long emacs user, and I still hate info pages. > Navigation is excruciately clumsy and they're I find them impossible > to search. Something wrong with C-s? Unless you mean outside one individual page, then the index is what you want.
From: despen on 15 Mar 2010 14:05 Todd <todd(a)invalid.com> writes: > On 03/14/2010 10:06 PM, unruh wrote: >> On 2010-03-15, Todd<todd(a)invalid.com> wrote: >>> Hi All, >>> >>> Who maintains the "man" pages? The author of >>> the program or somewhere/someone else? >> >> Did no one notify you? You do. >> Seriously, Linux is a community project, and various features are done >> by various people, volunteers. If there is some program you feel close >> to, start writing. > > Hi Unruh, > > What good would that do if I do not know where to > send it to? Despite lots of people showing their detailed knowledge, man pages are almost always written by the author. If the man page doesn't say otherwise, it's safe assumption it's part of the package.
From: Teemu Likonen on 15 Mar 2010 14:06 * 2010-03-15 14:03 (-0400), despen(a)verizon.net wrote: > Grant Edwards <invalid(a)invalid.invalid> writes: >> I've been a decades-long emacs user, and I still hate info pages. >> Navigation is excruciately clumsy and they're I find them impossible >> to search. > > Something wrong with C-s? > > Unless you mean outside one individual page, then the index is what > you want. "s" command is a regexp search in the whole document.
From: Mark Hobley on 15 Mar 2010 14:08 Todd <todd(a)invalid.com> wrote: > Hi Unruh, > > What good would that do if I do not know where to > send it to? If you have written some man pages, then post them to comp.sources.unix and I will add them to the missing man resources. http://markhobley.yi.org/manpages/missingman.html Regards, Mark. -- Mark Hobley Linux User: #370818 http://markhobley.yi.org/
From: Sidney Lambe on 15 Mar 2010 14:18
On comp.os.linux.misc, Todd <todd(a)invalid.com> wrote: > On 03/15/2010 09:57 AM, unruh wrote: > >> Now if the OP had told us what his concern was, we could have >> given more and better advice. > > I wanted to add a couple of lines to a man pages, of course! Gunzip the man page and open it in a text editor and put something like this at the bottom of the page: # .SH MY ADDED NOTES # Paragraph one. Second sentence.. # .PP # paragraph two. # Second sentence. Then gzip it.. You can convert manpages to plain text with: man <whatever> | col -bx Sid |