Re: [Groff] Parsing specific section of man page

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi,

Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> This is a misguided, terrible idea in so many ways.

Clarke Echols wrote:
> I agree with Ingo.  Unix man pages are supposed to have a well-defined
> sequence and format.

(Many, the majority?, don't comply on common Linux systems,
unfortunately.)

Neither of you are allowing that Siteshwar may be doing this for his own
personal enjoyment, for learning more, for a project to work on, or
something that he'd like to use.

bash(1) already has command_not_found_handle() and I'm sure I've heard
of something that displays help, e.g. attempts `foo --help' on a
keypress;  perhaps that was with readline help.  Anyway, disliking the
inelegance of it shouldn't curtail Siteshwar's exploration.  I did a
half-baked Fortran-to-C in sh when I was learning.  :-)

Cheers, Ralph.