Comment by vacri

11 years ago

My pet hate is man pages where the tool has a lot of options, and in the manual the options are listed neither alphabetically nor by semantic grouping. "Hrm, what does '-l' do. I guess I'll search for it, and hit every other -l along the way..."

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vacri

blueblob 11 years ago

Yeah, pretty annoying, if you use less as a pager for your manpages, you can try:

  /^[[:blank:]]+-l

but it's kind of annoying that you have to use regular expressions to find what you are looking for faster.

EDIT: it may work in more (the default pager) but I haven't tried it.