Comment by enedil

"Do you have a source for that belief?" - well, you have this HN thread where about half of the comments speak about why the man pages should stay. You can find great arguments, for instance man pages are searchable inside, but also you can search for manpages containing given keywords (man -k). My shell (fish) autocompletes man pages: when I enter `man gi`, it tells me that I can see the git manual, or for instance, GIMP manual. The first thing I do with a program is to open its manpage. When it isn't available, all I can think is that it was written carelessly. If you want to have interoperable software, you absolutely need to provide manpages.