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Re: [Groff] RE: Simplifying groff documentation
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Eric S. Raymond |
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Re: [Groff] RE: Simplifying groff documentation |
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Sat, 23 Dec 2006 12:56:49 -0500 |
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Peter Schaffter <address@hidden>:
> Eric's Web-centric, fully-
> hypertexted documentation is the ideal, methinks, but not at the
> cost of losing the ability to type "man <whatever>" at the command
> line.
Agreed. This is why I pushed a patch into man last year that teaches
it to do the right thing when sees HTML where it's expecting a man
page. In theory, every man page on a Unix running current man(1)
could be converted in place to HTML tomorrow, and -- other than the
fact that presentation suddenly started coming through their browser
:-) -- users wouldn't notice the difference. man foo would still
work.
That's what I want to do to info, too. My vision is that all the
legacy help browsers become ways to point your browser at subtrees of
the HTML on your system. /usr/share/man and /usr/share/info would be
the most important HTML subtrees, but there could be others, including
project-specific others.
--
<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
- Re: [Groff] Re: Simplifying groff documentation, (continued)
- Re: [Groff] Re: Simplifying groff documentation, Eric S. Raymond, 2006/12/29
- Re: [Groff] Re: Simplifying groff documentation, Meg McRoberts, 2006/12/29
- Re: [Groff] Re: Simplifying groff documentation, Gunnar Ritter, 2006/12/29
- Re: [Groff] Re: Simplifying groff documentation, Zvezdan Petkovic, 2006/12/29
- Re: [Groff] Re: Simplifying groff documentation, Eric S. Raymond, 2006/12/29
- [Groff] Semantic tagging and accessibility, Susan Jolly, 2006/12/29
- Re: [Groff] Semantic tagging and accessibility, Eric S. Raymond, 2006/12/29
- [Groff] Re: Simplifying groff documentation, Werner LEMBERG, 2006/12/23
- Re: [Groff] Re: Simplifying groff documentation, Eric S. Raymond, 2006/12/23
Re: [Groff] RE: Simplifying groff documentation, Peter Schaffter, 2006/12/23
Re: [Groff] RE: Simplifying groff documentation, Ted Harding, 2006/12/23
Re: [Groff] RE: Simplifying groff documentation, Eric S. Raymond, 2006/12/23
Re: <OK> [Groff] Simplifying groff documentation, M Bianchi, 2006/12/22