discuss: man pages
Subject:
Re: man pages
From:
John Fleck ####@####.####
Date:
16 May 2003 14:38:39 -0000
Message-Id: <20030516083835.B7347@inkstain.net>
On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 09:04:02AM -0400, Greg Ferguson wrote:
> On Fri, 16 May 2003 08:43:51 +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"
>
> scrollkeeper was/is meant to provide that type of functionality.
> http://scrollkeeper.sourceforge.net/
>
The problem here is that this requires packagers to register their
documentation with ScrollKeeper when the package is installed on the user's
computer, and there has been less than universal buy-in.
Cheers,
John
