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		lupusreal 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Man pages are great, man readers are the problem Conventions matter, manpages get indexed so you can access them easily with man readers. With raw markdown docs I have to go searching for the documentation myself.

shadowgovt 5 months ago [–]

True, but I don't think the gap on indexing Markdown docs is very large.

In fact... man already supports two parsable languages for the pages themselves. It could, hypothetically, support three.

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