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| From | <tomas@tuxteam.de> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: help, man, etc. (was: Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases) |
| Date | 2024-11-28 06:40 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <JNFpT-c9q6-3@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
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On Thu, Nov 28, 2024 at 09:34:24AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote:
> On 27/11/2024 23:59, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > OTOH, the venerable groff has gained a hyperlink markup
> > recently [1] ("recently" in its time scale), thus bridging yet another
> > gap separating man and info.
>
> Does it affect "man" when called in a terminal application (so usually
> "less" is used as a pager)?
Not magically, I guess. I think we'll still need the viewers being able
to "use" the new markup and the footwork of updating the docs.
> At least Emacs and Vim use heuristics with
> plenty of shortcomings to recognize cross-references to other man pages
> (https://manpages.debian.org - debiman works better because it has index of
> man pages from all packages). It is even worse with links to other sections
> and to notes in the same document.
>
> doc-base maintains some document index for yelp/khelpcenter/dhelp/dochelp.
No, I think that new markup is just a way of replacing the heuristic
with knowledge. The knowledge still has to come in :-)
Cheers
--
t
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Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-11-27 13:00 +0100
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Re: help, man, etc. (was: Re: Using terminal commands - corner cases) Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-11-28 03:40 +0100
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