On Tuesday, June 22, 2021 12:16:19 PM Stefan Monnier wrote: > > That's what I get for blindly copying and pasting the "directions" from > > Github. I should've have just told Monnier that the whole shebang > > can be installed locally, which renders inoperative his nitpick about > > not having the Net when he needs to cheat the most (or most often). > > The difference is that the manpages get installed automatically along > with the software, so they're always there, always uptodate, without me > having to think about it beforehand, without having to choose where to > install them, nor remember where I installed them. > > Don't get me wrong: all it means is that I think we want to keep *some* > examples in the manpages. IOW, I was just pointing out that the main > benefit of manpages is that they're local and work in almost all > situations. They don't need to contain all the info you'll ever want to > know, but I usually welcome a few examples in there ;-)
Eventually those extra examples for the man pages could become a local, automatically installed thing, similiar to the man pages -- there might be a command analogous to man, but instead exam[ple] (or similar, or wiki), invoked like: exam ls exam tar etc.
