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Re: Better Help Docs Searching?

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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Zsh Users <zsh-users@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Better Help Docs Searching?
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2021 09:08:37 -0700
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I'm not really excited about carrying on this conversation in THIS forum, but:

On Wed, Aug 4, 2021 at 7:57 AM Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I remember my first exposure to a Linux GUI, I think it was KDE and you click on 'Help' and some of the pages were entirely blank or had one useless sentence.

That was a direct result of (1) GNU attempting to force all the
documentation into info format while the GUI help tools were still
man-page based, and (2) Linux vendors leaving out the full manual
pages by default because they wanted the smallest possible
distributions.

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