From: Giacomo Tesio <giacomo@tesio.it>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] unexpected tabs in man pages after font change
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2015 01:17:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHL7psE=PwBe-fEzVf-WsQYgu3F09wgEfz0Na69dqbo=Y7qV1g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c5e1873606afdbb2358740ceb97e5805@habu.sfldmibb.det.wayport.net>
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2015-03-05 0:56 GMT+01:00 <sl@9front.org>:
> > And btw, programs don't write man pages... yet.
>
> Are you familiar with the conventions that power godoc?
>
No, but I know quite well it's predecessors (Docstrings, Javadoc etc...).
They are great for API, but IMHO not every unix man page can be generated
from code. They are a specialized kind of prose.
What I can't undestand I why we still need troff for them.
It's almost like using a teletype to chat! :-)
Giacomo
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2015-03-04 23:56 sl
2015-03-05 0:17 ` Giacomo Tesio [this message]
2015-03-05 14:10 ` erik quanstrom
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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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