Man Pages Debate
Discussions center on the quality, usability, readability, and relevance of Unix man pages as documentation, often comparing them to Stack Overflow, web searches, and modern alternatives.
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SCM SEE e.g freebsd.org ALSO HOWTO MIT UX ubuntu.com BUGS man pages emacs page manuals commands documentation gems manual examples
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how are "man" pages better?
wait til you look at the man pages for man... it's awesome!
Am I the only person who primarily reads man pages on the web?
There's two mentions of man pages.
man pages don't really solve the discoverability problem.
Are the man pages insufficient?
I wish man pages were this good!
Strange that no one mentioned man pages. I think they're a great doc and almost always contain what I need
Why is the "man" page somehow better?
before stackoverflow there was "documentation" and "man pages"; would have worked out alright