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Re: A feasible method to add examples to man pages?

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> That's what I get for blindly copying and pasting the "directions" from
> Github. I should've have just told Monnier that the whole shebang
> can be installed locally, which renders inoperative his nitpick about
> not having the Net when he needs to cheat the most (or most often).

The difference is that the manpages get installed automatically along
with the software, so they're always there, always uptodate, without me
having to think about it beforehand, without having to choose where to
install them, nor remember where I installed them.

Don't get me wrong: all it means is that I think we want to keep *some*
examples in the manpages.  IOW, I was just pointing out that the main
benefit of manpages is that they're local and work in almost all
situations.  They don't need to contain all the info you'll ever want to
know, but I usually welcome a few examples in there ;-)


        Stefan

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A feasible method to add examples to man pages? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-06-21 17:30 +0200
  Re: A feasible method to add examples to man pages? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-06-21 17:50 +0200
  Re: A feasible method to add examples to man pages? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2021-06-21 18:20 +0200
    Re: A feasible method to add examples to man pages? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2021-06-21 22:00 +0200
      Re: A feasible method to add examples to man pages? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-06-21 22:30 +0200
        Re: A feasible method to add examples to man pages? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-06-22 01:00 +0200
          Re: A feasible method to add examples to man pages? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-06-22 03:10 +0200
            Re: A feasible method to add examples to man pages? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2021-06-22 09:50 +0200
              Re: A feasible method to add examples to man pages? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-06-22 13:00 +0200
                Re: A feasible method to add examples to man pages? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2021-06-22 14:10 +0200
                Re: A feasible method to add examples to man pages? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-06-22 14:40 +0200
                Re: A feasible method to add examples to man pages? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2021-06-22 15:20 +0200
                Re: A feasible method to add examples to man pages? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-06-22 15:50 +0200
                Re: A feasible method to add examples to man pages? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2021-06-22 16:40 +0200
                Re: A feasible method to add examples to man pages? Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-06-22 16:30 +0200
                Re: A feasible method to add examples to man pages? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-06-22 18:20 +0200
              Re: A feasible method to add examples to man pages? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2021-06-22 18:20 +0200
                Re: A feasible method to add examples to man pages? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2021-06-23 13:20 +0200
              Re: A feasible method to add examples to man pages? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-06-23 21:40 +0200
  Re: A feasible method to add examples to man pages? Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> - 2021-06-21 19:00 +0200
    Re: A feasible method to add examples to man pages? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-06-21 20:30 +0200
  Re: A feasible method to add examples to man pages? Marco Möller <talby@debianlists.mobilxpress.net> - 2021-06-21 20:50 +0200

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