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Re: style: .MR


From: Ralph Corderoy
Subject: Re: style: .MR
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2022 21:25:44 +0000

Hi Humm,

> Personally, I’d much rather see a KWIC permuted index of the NAME
> sections.  (At least some of mentioned Programmer’s Manuals have that
> too.)

I agree.  I used to read the troff-typeset man pages which accompanied Sun
servers as a row of heavy folders and the permuted index was an excellent
resource.  It's not replaced by computer searching, e.g. apropos(1),
because the words of interest were in a column allowing easy scanning
and nearby vertical entries would also be worth a look.

-- 
Cheers, Ralph.



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