alt Hacker NewsThat is incredibly stupid. A documentation system designed by someone who doesn't understand how people use documentation.
If man was designed by someone with any taste at all it would at least give you a menu to select (1) crontab command, (5) crontab file format. Maybe we need a rewrite in Rust to fix that.
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Or a minor alteration to an existing program to support a good suggestion.
Why is it that the Rust community thinks that the solution to every flaw in an application is a rewrite in Rust?
> If man was designed by someone with any taste at all it would at least give you a menu [...]
My goodness. Man was written on a paper teletype.
It does that, depending on implementation.
It seems it has been done already a while ago without waiting for the rust community to do their usual churn.
https://imgur.com/a/kEkmRxx (link shows a screenshot of khelpcenter showing the different manpages available for crontab)
There are a multitude of manpagers and viewers and frontends. It's one of those things you can write yourself very easily.