Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
> > Well, you know, that's what manpages do. They give you a terse reference
> > to the bare essentials of what a tool does. That doesn't seem like much
> > of an "assumption" to me.

> I learned to script in bash using the manpage.  That's not exactly a 
> terse one - again, hard to generalise about this kind of thing.

  Ever checked zsh's manpage(s)? It's actually divided into 16 man pages,
each dealing with a subset of the features, and most of them aren't exactly
short (for example the manpage for 'zshexpn' is over 1900 lines long).

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                                                          - Warp

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