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From: "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Internal navigation in the online manual
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2026 19:53:52 +0100
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On 2026-10-31 14:11, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
> Le 31-10-2026, Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> a écrit :
>> On 2026-10-31, Carlos E. R. wrote:
>>
>>> Talking of manuals, I find large man pages very difficult to use,
>>> specially when you need something specific. No clickable table of
>>> content, no clickable index. Info pages are somewhat better.
>>
>> Isn't that more about the viewer using to read the manual pages, than a
>> flaw of the online manual in itself?
> 
> Maybe. When I wanted to learned about Linux, I hated man pages. I found
> them awful and useless. Now, I'm using them only when I know what I'm
> looking for. I mean, when I don't know something, I know that the man
> page will send me a useless shit load of details without anything
> useful. Or, if anything is useful it's buried and hidden among useless
> stuff. If I'm looking for a fast way to use a command, I'm using tldr.
> If I want to understand a command, I avoid man pages and go look for
> some information on Internet. It's only when I want to know what an
> option is really doing or if an option exists that I'm going to look for
> it in the man pages.

I ask chatgpt how to use the command.


-- 
Cheers,
        Carlos E.R.
        ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺.