[TUHS] man-page style
Toby Thain
toby at telegraphics.com.au
Sat Nov 17 07:35:32 AEST 2018
On 2018-11-16 4:29 PM, Grant Taylor via TUHS wrote:
> On 11/16/2018 02:24 PM, Toby Thain wrote:
>> `info` and `man` solve two different problems, regardless of one's
>> opinion of the interface to the former (which can be learned, it's no
>> more arcane than `vi`).
>
> I feel like the man vs info war (IMHO it's a war) on Linux has gone too
> far. Far enough that there are some tools that have between woefully
> inadequate man pages to missing man pages in favor of info documentation.
So you might be glad that Apple seems to have stopped shipping `info`
manuals for the tools that have them :-)
Progress, eh?
>
> It's worse than solving different problems.
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