From: "Ethan A. Gardener" <eekee57@fastmail.fm>
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] Argument lists in Plan 9 man pages
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2018 10:15:49 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1521368149.3682353.1307073896.5871016D@webmail.messagingengine.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFSF3XNithnfU15FeVD-BXcBosbZsAgDrWKkHTOSYRD_R0x28g@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Mar 16, 2018, at 1:23 PM, hiro wrote:
> > Manpages are supposed to be 'reference' pages.
>
> Wrong.
I hereby propose the addition of 'ref tables' to provide references on how to use commands. Looking up a command's 'ref table' is easy, simply type 'ref ' followed by the name of the command. For example:
ref -s δ ref
Or, just plumb a string such as this:
ref»δ«
--
The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne. -- Chaucer
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-18 10:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-16 1:20 sl
2018-03-16 1:32 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2018-03-16 13:22 ` hiro
2018-03-16 13:23 ` hiro
2018-03-16 15:08 ` Stanley Lieber
2018-03-16 15:45 ` hiro
2018-03-16 18:00 ` Stanley Lieber
2018-03-16 22:04 ` hiro
2018-03-16 22:06 ` hiro
2018-03-17 21:12 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2018-03-18 2:33 ` hiro
2018-03-18 10:15 ` Ethan A. Gardener [this message]
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2018-03-16 1:25 sl
2018-03-15 2:57 sl
2018-03-15 3:33 ` Sean Hinchee
2018-03-15 3:34 ` Kurt H Maier
2018-03-15 4:54 ` Kyle Nusbaum
2018-03-18 10:07 ` Ethan A. Gardener
2018-03-18 10:17 ` Ethan A. Gardener
2018-03-15 1:53 sl
2018-03-15 2:19 ` [9front] " Kurt H Maier
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