Remind me again, please. What's stopping us from dropping man-pages and their horrible ROFF format?
We could at least convert them to Markdown and provide a convenient pager that's not stuck in the 70s.
There's a reason nobody reads man pages and nobody provides well written man pages anymore: they're horrible, for authors and users alike. They were literally designed to be printed on paper.
Features I'd expect from a "modern" man system:
- cross references
- syntax highlighting
- search- & browse-ability
- actionable items
- anchors
@fribbledom That's what Info manuals were created for, and they're much, much worse. Also, a lot of the features you're missing are already present in man pages. At the very least, cross references, syntax highlighting and search- & browse-ability. They may not be there in the form you expect, but that's another issue.
To be honest, I quite like man pages and find them really useful.
