gnu is in many ways wonderful but documentation is not one of the ways. gnu&#x27;s two docs challenges are (1) document the command-line flags for users and (2) document the code for contributing devs. I&#x27;ve never faced case 2 but wading through man pages for case 1 is less than awesome.<p>I agree that docs <i>should</i> answer the user&#x27;s typical questions but gnu docs seldom do. Can you imagine trying to figure out gnu tar from the man page? You never would.<p>Doesn&#x27;t help that search engines starting with G view queries like &#x27;tail -f&#x27; as stopwords.