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		eviks on June 12, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Surprising Power of Documentation All of the basics of anything google-like: typo-friendliness with word forms and phrases, links to source, formatting of output, GUI, or not spamming the output with a dozen of lines of warnings that some man page files are missing. Then a bunch more degrees that I could know about if the tool were more usable

BLanen on June 12, 2023 [–]

Yes.

I mostly use man pages when I already basically know the program and need to do specific thing.

Even then I don't use man itself but usually a webpage of the manfile because of UX.

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