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Re: Common source for man page and info document?
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: Common source for man page and info document? |
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Mon, 14 Nov 2005 13:33:40 -0800 |
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Julian Foad <address@hidden> writes:
> I'm getting very annoyed by the mis-match between the man page and the
> info document.
Why not do what coreutils, diffutils, tar, etc. do? Generate the man
pages automatically from the --help output, using help2man.
See <http://www.gnu.org/software/help2man/>.
Of course the --help output needs to be maintained separate from the
info files, but you need to do that anyway. At least with help2man
you don't also need to maintain man pages separately.