From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] unexpected tabs in man pages after font change
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2015 06:10:39 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <05d0c1e662708730d3de8ed3d5a18d2b@brasstown.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c5e1873606afdbb2358740ceb97e5805@habu.sfldmibb.det.wayport.net>
> > And btw, programs don't write man pages... yet.
>
> Are you familiar with the conventions that power godoc?
i think what's being said here is that programs don't write the content.
without looking at godoc, i'm pretty sure that intended usage and the
context are going to be written by a human, even if the formatting is
done by a program.
- erik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-05 14:10 UTC|newest]
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2015-03-04 23:56 sl
2015-03-05 0:17 ` Giacomo Tesio
2015-03-05 14:10 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
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2015-03-04 16:13 Giacomo Tesio
2015-03-04 17:11 ` Giacomo Tesio
2015-03-05 14:15 ` erik quanstrom
2015-03-05 15:22 ` Giacomo Tesio
2015-03-04 21:31 ` Aram Hăvărneanu
2015-03-04 22:29 ` Giacomo Tesio
2015-03-04 22:39 ` Stanley Lieber
2015-03-04 23:09 ` Giacomo Tesio
2015-03-05 0:02 ` Giacomo Tesio
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