Yeah, one big problem of man I found was the severe lack of explanation of what the command is mainly intended to do. It’s as if the user is expected to run the man after knowing what purpose a specific program exists for, which, I guess is what it is intended for. I tend to rely on the package manager’s information and other similar sources for that information and man mainly for determining the exact usage.

I don’t at all expect man to be useful for someone who can just follow written instructions.
The reason being than man is just supposed to tell the user, what typy stuff needs to be done for specific functionality. And most programs tend to be doing some small thingy and not fulfilling the user’s whole requirement in one go.
Meaning, to be happy with just man, one needs to be able to create a solution for themselves by properly fitting little parts and that is already more than half way to being able to do programming.

Your man -a intro example and what followed, made me more confused than before of what you were trying to say, so I am just trying to go with the feel of it for now.

Other than stuff like ffmpeg - which has so many features that a man page just can’t cut it; and sed - which doesn’t have a simple hyperlink saying “you go here to learn sed regexp”, most man pages do what I need them to do.

You just need to learn the basics of how the man page is organised and what the brackets in the SYNOPSIS section mean and that makes using them much easier.

We also have man man for that purpose.

I actually used to make backups (Export) of each edited key and keep them in folders with context, so I could later look them up or even set them again in case of a reinstall.

Now, they are lying, forgotten, on some NTFS drive that I haven’t opened in years.

I was thinking about Apple M3, but then I don’t really get many car ads.

Carry on…

Also, the “Paste Without Formatting” button is paste without formatting

Just pour it out in a bowl an keep it in the freezer.

Yeah, that was the only way that worked consistently. Buttons like “Paste Without Formatting” failed in more than a few cases.

Past tense, because it works on Linux. But I still have the old habit and use KWrite sometimes.

Ask an LLM what is affected by tariffs