Re: man v. info
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 10:52:33AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 04:31:12PM +0100, Michael Mauch
> (michael.mauch@gmx.de) wrote:
> > I think a decent search facility is a must for more in-depth
> > documentation. If I _know_ that I want to use newwin(3), I can easily
> > type "man newwin". But if I just want to get started with curses, I am
> > really lost after "man -k curses". A hierarchical "book" (be it in
> > HTML or in info format) with a "Getting started" topic is a lot more
> > user-friendly in such cases.
>
> Most man pages have a "SEE ALSO" section. Accessing these through dwww
> links to the related manpages, access via 'man' is left as an exercise
> to the reader.
I'd love to be able to get SEE ALSO links working in 'man -H'.
Unfortunately it's not really feasible without well-defined man: URLs
implemented in most browsers, which I don't see happening any time soon.
A shame.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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