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On Sun, 04 Jan 2015 17:54:15 -0500, Dan Espen wrote:

> not.socialnetwork@gmail.com writes:
> 
>> For how many more years are we going to tolerate the burden of
>> accomodating the whims of the ART students?
>>
>> The need to read masses of `man *` which are contaminated by the NOISE
>> of eg:
>> "..The default quali-
>> fier  is  trace....
> 
> Rant makes no sense.
> 
> You can use any formatter you like for man pages, including troff which
> is capable of rendering tables with real borders, proportional justified
> fonts, multiple font sizes, bold, italic,
> and line drawings.
> 
> I use Emacs (M-x man), and get nicely formatted, easily searchable
> pages.

No!
The lowest-common-denominator: ie. man <ID>;
 should give plain-text WITHOUT broken-words to "get nicely formatted"
 for the <ladies fashion magazine> type.

Emacs is an EXTRA-layer.
And the ballet dancers who want extra-extra can have music and lavender
scent too. 

If you're navigating in difficult conditions, and quickly need info,
being forced to access Emacs, is like needing a governmenbt application
to scratch your ear. 

First of all get the minimal/basics right!