Re: External commands manual page
- From:
- Jack Nagel
- Date:
- 2011-09-10 @ 20:59
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 8:25 PM, Jack Nagel <jacknagel@gmail.com> wrote:
> After some discussion in the issue tracker, I've gone ahead and documented
> the external commands that ship with Homebrew on the wiki.
>
> https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/External-Commands-Manual
FYI, I've cleaned up the existing External Commands page and combined the two:
https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/External-Commands
Re: [homebrew] External commands manual page
- From:
- Max Howell
- Date:
- 2011-09-10 @ 10:35
Great, thanks Jack.
Regarding brew-man having its own manage. This is ridiculous, anyone
object to removing it?
> Hey list,
>
> After some discussion in the issue tracker, I've gone ahead and documented
> the external commands that ship with Homebrew on the wiki.
>
> https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/External-Commands-Manual
>
> A few notes:
>
> - I've omitted several commands (`man`, `missing`, `server` and `which`, to
> be specific) from the wiki page because they are actually already in the
> brew(1) man page (or in the case of `man`, have their own man page) and I
> didn't think that they needed to be documented more than once.
>
> - I am considering combining this page with (at least some of the material
> from) the existing "External Commands" page, but I haven't decided what
> the best way to do that is yet.
>
> - Feel free to fix typos, point out things I missed content-wise, etc, but
> I've tried to follow the man page format as much as is possible on a
> Markdown-formatted wiki page, and I'd like to preserve that aspect of it.
>
> Happy brewing.
>
> Jack
Re: [homebrew] External commands manual page
- From:
- Jack Nagel
- Date:
- 2011-09-10 @ 18:36
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 5:35 AM, Max Howell <max@methylblue.com> wrote:
> Great, thanks Jack.
>
> Regarding brew-man having its own manage. This is ridiculous, anyone
object to removing it?
Not at all.
Re: [homebrew] External commands manual page
- From:
- Trevor Wennblom
- Date:
- 2011-09-10 @ 11:13
On Sep 10, 2011, at 6:35 AM, Max Howell wrote:
> Regarding brew-man having its own manage. This is ridiculous, anyone
object to removing it?
certainly no objection, but there is 'man man' - /usr/share/man/man1/man.1.gz