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[–] [email protected] 82 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (5 children)

I was recently trying trying to get help on a clipboard program someone had recommended me, clipq. What I found instead was a GitHub discussion where the dev said "I'm not sure what you mean by 'man' pages" in response to someone asking for them. I think I need to find an alternative

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago

Did they at least provide woman pages then?

/s

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I've only known about (and always use) xclip.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

copyq — if anyone needs universal multiplatfom gui app

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Be the change you want to see in the world and create a PR. 😃

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

tbf syntax for writing manpages is closer to latex than markdown

[–] taladar 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It is not that complicated and there are plenty of tools to generate man pages from other formats. Besides, this is about the dev not knowing what a man page even is.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Stuff like this is why I'm really glad I was a hard ass about learning "the right way," and refused to let myself use a full IDE and instead rely on a terminal setup. Crazy how many people (with tons of experience) can be missing basic knowledge about how *nix environments run

[–] pomodoro_longbreak 2 points 10 months ago

I can't imagine working with linux and not being comfortable with its most fundamental conceit: interactive ttys that you can do anything from. It's like being a Windows user and not knowing about the Start menu

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Soy devs have invaded Linux.

[–] pomodoro_longbreak 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What do you mean by this?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"You're not a real dev if don't know [insert thing here]"

[–] pomodoro_longbreak 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm not seeing the soy connection