this image comes to mind every time i use man pages

  • Ook the Librarian@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    man is self-paging and searchable. It uses some old-school emacs bindings like Ctrl + V from before PgDn was a standard key. So I’m not claiming it’s intuitive.

    If cmd --help spews a bunch of info to the screen, you basically have to handle it with grep or less or go modern.