Hi Clarke,
At 2021-05-22T21:09:56-0600, Clarke Echols wrote:
> I don't know why that would occur...
>
> (Aside note):
> [In the HP-UX Reference Manual (HP's Unix which was POSIX compliant) I
> produced in late 1992, which contained all manpages, there is a
> manpage included in Volume 1 on page 9
I don't know why that would occur...
(Aside note):
[In the HP-UX Reference Manual (HP's Unix which was POSIX compliant) I
produced in late 1992, which contained all manpages, there is a manpage
included in Volume 1 on page 91 and 92 with the heading at the top of each
past: "cd(1)". The manual c
Hello.
|> Good idea. I've further changed the Subject: to reflect the flow of the
|> discussion.
...
|> I also wonder if the pager wars are basically over and less(1) won them.
|
|That's certainly what I thought...
..
Ever since less(1) started supporting OSC 8 "Hyperlinks in
Terminal Emu
Ulrich Lauther wrote in
<20210522214249.GA20730@starlite>:
|On Sat, May 22, 2021 at 08:18:41PM +0200, Oliver Corff wrote:
|>
|> "man cd", on the other hand, opens the bash built-in command *man page*,
|> which, at least on my system is a plethora of text to read (and digest).
|>
|on my syt
On Sat, May 22, 2021 at 08:18:41PM +0200, Oliver Corff wrote:
>
> "man cd", on the other hand, opens the bash built-in command *man page*,
> which, at least on my system is a plethora of text to read (and digest).
>
on my sytem (ubunto mate) "man cd" results in "No manual entry for cd".
> Just m
On 5/18/21, Oliver Corff wrote:
> Wouldn't it be a good idea to collect macros of this kind (and previous
> contributions to this list) in a contrib directory?
Since Mike Bianchi proposed a similar idea a couple years ago
(http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2018-11/msg00028.html), I've
been
Hi James,
this is a very nice intro indeed. I have a few suggestions:
I agree with Dave that the passus on numbered sections of man pages
should be moved further down. The majority of novice users will likely
search for commands, not necessarily for functions etc. A dedicated
section "On Section
On 5/17/21, James K. Lowden wrote:
> Attached is a straw man 1st draft of what an introduction to the man
> system might look like. If it clears the threshold of raspberries,
> perhaps we can mold it into something useful.
I think it looks great!
I'm admittedly not its target audience, as I hav
Hi, Bertrand and Ingo! Thanks to you both for your help.
At 2021-05-21T18:23:56+0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> Not very surprisingly, i didn't instantly manage to reproduce your
> problem on a different machine and operating system. That's typical
> for races, they depend on a lot of details.
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