From: Paul Lalonde <plalonde@telus.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] irc answers - man and memmove
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 17:17:23 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <FF937650-701A-4C52-9562-04E3ED642288@telus.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7359f0490512051714m21e8b7ffrd1e60bab69d8edc4@mail.gmail.com>
I'm in complete agreement. I just loathe the plumber hack to do case-
insensitive first-letter in man pages. I should just spend the 3
minutes and do it.
Paul
On 5-Dec-05, at 5:14 PM, Rob Pike wrote:
> Sentences begin with capital letters.
>
> -rob
>
> On 12/5/05, Paul Lalonde <plalonde@telus.net> wrote:
>>
>> On 5-Dec-05, at 4:07 AM, Russ Cox wrote:
>>> If you read the pages with man -P, which shows you the typeset
>>> version, these names will be in italics, which should make them
>>> easier for you to recognize as function names. The manual is,
>>> as fgb and man(1) point out, intended to be typeset.
>>
>> Actually, my biggest man page complaint is the capitalization of the
>> symbols at the front of a sentence. I usually B3 to find the
>> particular function I care about, and it is frequently capitalized,
>> breaking the search.
>>
>> Paul
>>
>>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-06 1:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-05 12:07 Russ Cox
2005-12-05 19:07 ` Sascha Retzki
2005-12-06 1:09 ` Paul Lalonde
2005-12-06 1:14 ` Rob Pike
2005-12-06 1:17 ` Paul Lalonde [this message]
2005-12-06 1:48 ` Russ Cox
2005-12-07 9:57 ` Gorka guardiola
2005-12-07 10:41 ` Lucio De Re
2005-12-06 1:22 ` erik quanstrom
2005-12-06 6:31 ` [9fans] Capitalization in man pages Lyndon Nerenberg
2005-12-06 7:01 ` Rob Pike
2005-12-06 9:44 ` Charles Forsyth
2005-12-06 11:01 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2005-12-06 11:17 ` Charles Forsyth
2005-12-06 11:27 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2005-12-06 11:12 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2005-12-06 11:18 ` Lucio De Re
2005-12-06 12:22 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2005-12-06 12:32 ` Charles Forsyth
2005-12-06 12:40 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2005-12-06 13:02 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2005-12-06 13:41 ` Charles Forsyth
2005-12-06 13:54 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2005-12-06 14:30 ` John Stalker
2005-12-06 18:11 ` Charles Forsyth
2005-12-06 18:31 ` Rob Pike
2005-12-08 3:58 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2005-12-08 4:10 ` Russ Cox
2005-12-08 4:55 ` Uriel
2005-12-07 3:56 ` Jeff Sickel
2005-12-06 15:57 ` jmk
2005-12-07 0:11 ` geoff
2005-12-07 0:17 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2005-12-07 0:22 ` Steve Simon
2005-12-08 3:55 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2005-12-06 12:46 ` erik quanstrom
2005-12-06 15:02 ` Brantley Coile
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