RE: FVWM: configuring fvwm2

From: Jeff Walker <jwalker_at_matchlogic.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 09:03:17 -0600

I do too. I think the fvwm man page is great. It just took me a while to
get thru it, but that is because there is so much to get thru.

One thing that zsh has done is split it up into smaller chunks (man zsh, man
zshbuiltins, man zshexpn, etc.), and then also have "meta-manpage" that
includes all of it (man zshall). I always fire up the whole thing "man
zshall" and then search for what I want. Without that, I would be lost,
because, if I was stuck and didn't know what to do, I wouldn't necessarily
know which man page to look in.

I also, absolutely hate the Linux documentation is moving; that is, having a
man page that is a summary (at best) or not even there or out of date, and
having the real doc in "info" format. I hate that. On Unix, I expect the
man pages to at least have a proper command-line usage, if not the entire
documentation. (okay, off the soapbox, back to your cell...)

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-----Original Message-----
From: Randy Schultz [mailto:schultz_at_sgi.com]
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2001 7:37 AM
To: fvwm_at_fvwm.org
Subject: Re: FVWM: configuring fvwm2
On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Perry Hutchison spaketh thusly:
-{> We've had complaints that the fvwm man page is too big.
-{> Someone claimed that it was the largest man page ever created,
-{> but we found a couple that are larger.
-{
-{Maybe convert most of it to an "info" and make the manpage a
-{summary .... NOT!!!
-{
-{Why would anyone object to a large manpage?  Beats having to look
-{in unexpected places, and/or not having complete docs at all.
Here here!  I love having this monster man page that I can bop around in
checking things out.
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