discuss: man pages
Subject:
Re: man pages
From:
Pierre Machard ####@####.####
Date:
16 May 2003 06:54:12 -0000
Message-Id: <20030516065410.GD1840@twinette.migus.eu.org>
Hi,
On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 08:43:51AM +0200, jdd wrote:
> this discussion makes me think at an other way to improve doc.
>
> do you know of any utility that could detecte automatically _all_ the
> doc available for an application?
>
> some sort of "locate_doc"
>
> I mean I use mostly man pages or google. but I have no way to know if
> there is an info file, HOWTO's, /usr/share/doc... and I can miss some
> important thing.
>
> browsing all by hand is quite tedious.
>
> I would like to type "locate_doc ls" and have a list of all the relevant
> doc.
>
> if LDP was leading this, we could propose some way of indexing non
> standard doc.
>
> an utility can find man or info page, /usr/share/doc README or such
> pretty usual thing but not html courses, but there could be a
> registration form (as fresmeat) at ldp or any html tag, LDP recommended,
> to easy web index.
For debian users, I would like to recall that dwww is doing that work
pretty well. (It's still buggy, but it's an interssant tool)
Cheers,
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Pierre Machard
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