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Prefer man directly over groff

Open kevin-sellers opened this issue 3 years ago • 0 comments

groff is great, as it easily generates ASCII text for help pages, but lacks the escape sequences of man pages (bold, italic, etc.). Since it's evident that aws help pages are formatted in the same way as manual pages, I would expect it to look and feel the same way. For this reason, instead of piping output through groff and then the user's pager of choice, we now favor man (when available) to format these pages in the standard way (which automatically uses the correct pager).

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kevin-sellers avatar Jun 15 '22 23:06 kevin-sellers