Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E. R." Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.shell Subject: Re: Internal navigation in the online manual Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2026 19:56:32 +0100 Lines: 51 Message-ID: References: <18dee4b6cab427fa$865$2574533$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <11bg381$1bjd2$1@dont-email.me> <11bhv61$1bjd2$2@dont-email.me> <11bi77v$20c1p$1@news.xmission.com> <11binqk$1bjd2$3@dont-email.me> <11bmnvg$36mvk$1@dont-email.me> <11bp7nd$139t9$2@dont-email.me> <1omdnboFafC6TX33nZ2dnZfqn_GdnZ2d@giganews.com> <11brekh$139ta$4@dont-email.me> <76sES.99248$xwD5.81928@fx47.iad> <11bvs57$3gfju$3@dont-email.me> <11c4h4n$1025g$5@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 5obJNhTRaPVXbLbmsUp1iQUEc/5rTwuJ+RPKmeef/cytmRkqHI Cancel-Lock: sha1:7dVlRiqh5TrP/gcJO3r49H0DHIQ= sha256:koI4lnjPcfjClXiZDTTVsc2D5g5hnW9wtvH/4CpR1zI= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-GB In-Reply-To: <11c4h4n$1025g$5@dont-email.me> Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:94860 comp.unix.shell:27077 On 2026-10-31 11:49, Nuno Silva wrote: > On 2026-10-31, Carlos E. R. wrote: > >> On 2026-10-30 20:24, Charlie Gibbs wrote: >>> On 2026-10-30, c186282 wrote: >>> >>>> On 10/29/26 12:27, Chris Ahlstrom wrote: >>>> >>>>> rbowman wrote this screed in ALL-CAPS (fixed): >>>>> >>>>>> On Wed, 28 Oct 2026 19:33:23 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> The closest I ever came to using an IDE was the symbolic debugger that >>>>>>> came with Lattice C for MS-DOS. Simple, effective... and gone. >>>>>> >>>>>> I missed that one although I did use MS C after they bought Lattice and >>>>>> developed it further. I will say for its era Microsoft C had excellent >>>>>> hard copy documentation. >>>>> >>>>> I agree with that last sentence. In the 80's the manuals for their >>>>> C and FORTRAN were very good, and obviously inspired by the layout >>>>> of DEC's manuals. >>>> >>>> You are correct - manuals/docs were EXTREMELY good >>>> for such stuff "back in the day". Found a manual >>>> for "Aztec C" (great !) from the old days ... WOW ! ... >>>> literally bit-level shit in there in case you needed >>>> to hyper-optimize something. Clearly the people who >>>> wrote the doc also wrote the compiler. >>>> >>>> More VOLUME of docs these days ... but "As Good" ??? >>> >>> Hardly. Most manuals back in the day had a section titled >>> "Theory of Operation". I really miss that. >> >> >> 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? No, man pages do not contain links to section of the document. It is not structured. -- Cheers, Carlos E.R. ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺.