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Say what program does in man page NAME section #457
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Well, less is a true veteran, not any wannabe tool. |
I agree, the "opposite of more" joke was lame and unhelpful 40 years ago; even more so today. |
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Here we are looking around for terminal-related programs.
We miss out on
less
. Why? becauseeven on the Posix man page.
Sounded clever back then, but what if every man page did that? apropos(1) would
then be filled with "A is the opposite of B" and "C is an improved
version of D"... But one day when users are not familiar anymore with B
and D, it doesn't make sense.
So please fix the NAME field, so at least in apropos(1) it also just says
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