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Re: [Groff] Splitting groff(7)
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Ralph Corderoy |
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Re: [Groff] Splitting groff(7) |
Date: |
Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:13:52 +0100 |
Hi,
Responding to various posts...
> True. But big manpages are more than a little unwieldy online. The
> groff(7) manpage is about as big as a manpage can be and still be
> useful on a terminal. The bash(1) manpage is far worse.
I'm happy with the current size of troff(1) and groff(7). less will
let me search through the man page; I don't really notice its size.
> The TCL manpage collection goes beyond Perl's; each function call has
> a manpage. In a way, that's more workable than Perl's approach since
> you don't have to find the manpage that contains the information
> you're looking for (plus anything related). The problem is, for TCL
> and Tk, the total comes to about 500 manpages!
The real problem is man pages exist in a single name-space, ignoring
sections, and Tcl's man page names clash with other things, e.g. time,
pack, open. I've always thought its man page structure was a very poor
aspect of Tcl. Some installations place all Tcl pages into their own
section, e.g. `n', which shows what a problem it is; library routines
should arguably be in section 3 or described in tcl(1).
> I run man and search for a keyword. I can't easily do any of this if
> the information is spread over many separate man pages. For example,
> I can *never* find anything in the perl man pages--I always end up
> turning to the camel book.
I have the same problem and run less on man1/perl*.1 and search with
/*foo to find out the likely man pages. Having learnt perl from
perl(1) before the split I wouldn't like groff to go the same way.
Ralph.
- Re: [Groff] Splitting groff(7), (continued)
- Re: [Groff] Splitting groff(7), Jon Snader, 2001/06/12
- Re: [Groff] Splitting groff(7), Larry Kollar, 2001/06/13
- Re: [Groff] Splitting groff(7), Jon Snader, 2001/06/13
- Re: [Groff] Splitting groff(7), Werner LEMBERG, 2001/06/14
- Re: [Groff] Splitting groff(7), Larry Kollar, 2001/06/14
- Re: [Groff] Splitting groff(7), G Hasse, 2001/06/15
- Re: [Groff] Splitting groff(7), Larry Kollar, 2001/06/16
- Re: [Groff] Splitting groff(7), G Hasse, 2001/06/17
- Re: [Groff] Splitting groff(7), Werner LEMBERG, 2001/06/14
- Re: [Groff] Splitting groff(7),
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