[MPlayer-dev-eng] Oh. Manpage.

Gabucino gabucino at mplayerhq.hu
Tue Nov 19 17:57:09 CET 2002


Hey manpage writers. Have you EVER tried measuring how much time does it take
to scroll the manpage even with _PAGE DOWN_ ?? I just did. Four (4) seconds.

How can someone reasonably expect someone to read _that_ ? Half the manpage are
only -lavcopts's alien options... And commonly used options are mixed up with
all the sophisticated ones that not even a totally bent human being would ever
use in his whole life. The only system that is present is the ABC-order.

Eh..

75609 Nov 19 17:37 mplayer/DOCS/mplayer.1

92% of the 3236 manpages on my system are below 20k in size.

I don't have the interest to change this (only a rewrite would satisfy me
anyway..), I just wanted to say that this is absolutely bloated and monolitic,
and I don't like it.

On the other hand, I must say it's quite a nice collection.

-- 
Gabucino
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