Colorized man pages
As a tangent, I remain impressed by manpage&#x27;s staying power. GNU tried to move ahead with Info, a tree-based doc format and viewer, but that never really seems to have taken off, possibly due to UI issues (I&#x27;m always confused about how to use it) It&#x27;s a pity: have you tried searching for something in, say, Bash&#x27;s manpage? It&#x27;s just a flattened version of its doc, and you&#x27;re completely flooded with search results.<p>I suppose manpages are another example of &quot;worse is better&quot;. They are extremely simple to use, which is what you want when you&#x27;re frustrated and looking for that *$#&amp; option to &#x27;find&#x27;. And yet, the troff&#x2F;groff formatters used by manpages can be pretty sophisticated (Kernighan mentioned in an interview [1] he still used it to write books, eschewing to complexity of Latex) and can produce a variety of formats, such as HTML or PostScript. Why don&#x27;t distributions make more use of this? I miss the days where you could &quot;man foo&quot; in KDE&#x27;s quick launch bar and get a nicely HTML formatted version in Konqueror.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rkrishnan.org&#x2F;posts&#x2F;2016-03-07-how-is-gopl-typeset.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;rkrishnan.org&#x2F;posts&#x2F;2016-03-07-how-is-gopl-typeset.h...</a>