when do you usually use the man page for a complex command line tool to answer a question you have? (like git, openssl, rsync, curl, etc)
(edit: no need to say "i use --help then man")
i'm very curious about everyone who says "I'd look there first", if I want to figure out how to do something new I think I'll usually google how to do it rather than look at the man page, and then maybe later look at the man page to look up the details
(I've gotten enough of these answers:
- "I like that man pages don't require changing context"
- "with the man page I know I have the right version of the docs")
@b0rk answered with that option as well. with alt+h in fish, it just opens as some kind of overlay, allowing me to search the man page without removing what I've entered first.
If the man page doesn't work, the second approach is `cheat <command>` with cheat being a fish function which queries cheat.sh/<command> and pipes the output into bat.
And only after that, I'll search for information via the browser ^^
Julia Evans
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