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From: Ralph Corderoy <ralph@inputplus.co.uk>
To: Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: On Bloat and the Idea of Small Specialized Tools
Date: Sat, 18 May 2024 19:22:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240518182218.44ED921309@orac.inputplus.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKH6PiXaYGEUmVFRX99eM6s3+nTJrbVvkuBRa-Awhhd69xzJrg@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Doug,

>        % less --help | wc -l
>       298
> Last time I looked, the line count was about 220. Bloat is self-catalyzing.

Adding a --help option is a sign the man page lacks succintness.
It's the easier solution.

Another point against adding --help: there's a second attempt to
describe the source.

-- 
Cheers, Ralph.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-05-18 18:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-05-18 18:07 Douglas McIlroy
2024-05-18 18:13 ` Brantley Coile
2024-05-18 18:18 ` Larry McVoy
2024-05-18 18:52   ` Clem Cole
2024-05-18 19:19     ` Luther Johnson
2024-05-18 20:12       ` segaloco via TUHS
2024-05-18 19:32     ` Stuff Received
2024-05-18 18:22 ` Ralph Corderoy [this message]
2024-05-19  8:58   ` [TUHS] The 'usage: ...' message. (Was: On Bloat...) Ralph Corderoy
2024-05-18 18:31 ` [TUHS] Re: On Bloat and the Idea of Small Specialized Tools Peter Weinberger (温博格) via TUHS
2024-05-18 20:33 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2024-05-19  8:39   ` Marc Rochkind
2024-05-20  6:07     ` Adam Thornton
2024-05-20 15:43       ` [TUHS] Documentation (was On Bloat and the Idea of Small Specialized Tools) Paul Winalski
2024-05-20 16:37         ` [TUHS] " Andrew Hume
2024-05-20 18:38         ` Yeechang Lee
2024-05-20 19:27           ` Phil Budne

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