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Re: C++ man pages?
On Sun, 23 Apr 2006, Joe Buck prattled cheerily:
>
>> On 20 Apr 2006, Joe Buck moaned:
>> > There is online documentation at
>> >
>> > http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/documentation.html
>> >
>> > It doesn't exist in "man page" form.
>
> On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 08:30:01PM +0100, Nix wrote:
>> Um, what does `make -C your-platform-directory/libstdc++-v3 doxygen-man' produce, then?
>
> A greatly inferior version lacking class diagrams, hyperlinks, tables of
> contents, etc.
Yes, they are nasty, but they're manpages, and have the notable
advantage of being about three keystrokes away in most editors.
I use them to look up prototypes in about half the time (the
other half the time I use the Standard).
> But at least you get to say "Gotcha!"
Oh, that would be juvenile. I just carve another notch into the side of
my monitor...
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