badrihippo, to random
@badrihippo@fosstodon.org avatar

There should be a more search-friendly version of man; maybe we can call it hobbit. I don't mean just searching through a #manpage, but having cookbook-styles questions like "How do I do X with Y command?" ❓

Each hobbitentry would be independently searchable within a hobbitpage, so that I can search for git rename branch or something and it'd give me the result even if it's not an exact string match 🔎

Result: less time on search engines and more time in the command-line! :terminal:

scy, to linux
@scy@chaos.social avatar

Suppose I was thinking about writing #manpage⁠s for the command-line tools I build, but I don’t want to learn a 50 year old typesetting language (#troff) to do that.

What are my options? #Asciidoc? What would you use? What do you use?

I looked into #Pandoc Markdown to man conversion, and it seemed to suck.

#Unix #Linux #CLI #documentation

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