Hi,
Discussion about the request invocation 'br in
http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?62776#comment14 made me also wonder
about 'sp, another seemingly paradoxical invocation. But like 'br,
this seems clearly enough documented in the info manual:
"Several other requests imply breaks: ... 'sp', I
On 4/24/23, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> Applying `tr` only to the current environment would accommodate the
> local use case better at the admitted expense of the global one.
That there are two use cases with differing needs suggests that
perhaps there should be two different .tr-like requests,
> > The problem with symlinks is that they need to be updated to match
> > manpage compression. `.so` works with any compression used for the
> > manpage.
That's not a problem with symlinks,
but a problem with manpage compression.
Why would anyone compress manpages?
How much space does that save
Jan Stary writes:
That's not a problem with symlinks,
but a problem with manpage compression.
Why would anyone compress manpages?
How much space does that save overall?
[snip example]
Tens of megabytes saved, in the whole system.
Absoultely not worth the hassle.
i personally agree, but
