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Re: man(1): mimic OSX behaviour



On Oct 6, 2009, at 2:21 AM, Hubert Feyrer wrote:

> On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, Christoph Egger wrote:
>> Any comments ?
> 
> Same behaviour on Linux (Tested: some Debian).
> Saves people from running *roff manually (good),
> and dumbs them down from knowing the details of how manpages work (bad).

Eh, doesn't dumb it down... "regular" end-users don't have to care, and man 
page editors still have to know it's *roff (because they have to use *roff to 
format the document).

> 
> Choosing usability over user education: Thumbs up from me! :-)
> 
> 
> - Hubert

-- thorpej



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