Julia EvansFeb 20

a different version of the same question: if you find man pages difficult or impossible to use, what makes them so hard? do you feel like it's something that could be fixed?

(other than "the lack of examples", which is possibly the #1 issue, also please don't tell me about tldr.sh)

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@b0rk The problem I regularly have is I think "what are all the options for %f in printf?" Well first, I do `man printf` and get the page for the shell command, not the c function, and after I do `man fprintf`, I find out %f isn't even there
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@b0rk Another one, there is a man page that explains all of the Unix signals (SIGTERM, SIGMIN+5, etc). However, there are like 8 man pages across different chapters that all are called signal and it's not obvious which one will describe the signals
Feb 20 at 10:13pmWeb