James K. Lowden wrote:
>
> gromunity:
>
> In working with my GUI man page viewer (not ready for its first
> audition yet) I found myself asking how indexes could be implemented in
> current and future man systems, and what groff would have to produce
> for a viewer to provide an index affordanc
JM Marcastel wrote:
> I would like to investigate the possibility of using Markdown as an alternate
> format for UNIX man-pages.
> (Cf. https://github.com/marcastel/marcastel/discussions/7)
>
> Rather than re-inventing the wheel I would ideally like this to become part
> of an existing tool
gromunity:
In working with my GUI man page viewer (not ready for its first
audition yet) I found myself asking how indexes could be implemented in
current and future man systems, and what groff would have to produce
for a viewer to provide an index affordance. What follows is my
analysis of where
On Sun, 23 May 2021 13:55:58 +1000
"G. Branden Robinson" wrote:
> But as a Unix expert of long pedigree (unfurled above), you must
> surely already appreciate why "cd" in particular is a tricky case.
>
> Commands get man pages. So do library functions, system calls, device
> interfaces, and fil
