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1. vacri+(OP)[view] [source] 2014-01-25 21:46:32
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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2. bluebl+0f[view] [source] 2014-01-26 02:28:24
>>vacri+(OP)
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.

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