Giteveryday – A useful minimum set of commands for Everyday Git

Post by glandium » Mon, Oct 31, 2016, 5:51 AM UTC

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I can never remember which manual page contains a description of struct timespec, for example. Running apropos or man -k didn't help me. I only found out it's time.h(0p) by a lucky guess. Info is actually a quite decent idea, it's just executed poorly. Info pages are written like books, while I really miss the concise lexicon-like format of man pages. And it doesn't help that the default GNU info viewer is on one han…

Ah. Just open the libc manual with "info libc", then "i" to look something up in the index, and type "struct timespec". (You can even tab-complete the name of the struct). >And it doesn't help that the default GNU info viewer is on one hand unusable for someone who isn't already an Emacs user Yes, well, did you consider running "info info"? :) There's a tutorial accessible with "h". It's not as if there's much to lea…

Post by prashnts » Mon, Oct 31, 2016, 5:43 PM UTC

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How about tldr-pages? [1] [1] https://tldr-pages.github.io/

That does look a lot better! Bit weird that the main client requires Node.JS though.