From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) In-Reply-To: <7359f0490512051714m21e8b7ffrd1e60bab69d8edc4@mail.gmail.com> References: <7359f0490512051714m21e8b7ffrd1e60bab69d8edc4@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Paul Lalonde Subject: Re: [9fans] irc answers - man and memmove Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 17:17:23 -0800 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Topicbox-Message-UUID: b8c9b81e-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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 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 >> >>