[majewsky]

I also prefer manpages over web searches for multiple reasons:

- works without internet: very important when you want to use a long train ride to write some code (I also have the entire rust-doc and all IETF RFCs on my disk for quick referencing)

- quick and reliable access to known items: `man ascii` is way quicker than finding an ASCII table on the web (probably on Wikipedia). And finding the syntax for an obscure bash feature is way easier when your search is confined to `man bash` rather than to the entire web.

- Don't know how to label this, but I like that the manpage is a complete documentation of one tool, unlike a disconnected set of Stack Overflow questions. That allows one to cursory read through the manpage to learn the scope of what that tool can accomplish.

[falcolas]

One more reason - the man pages will be specific to the version of your tool. My man pages on my mac will automatically pull up the BSD version of "ls", not the GNU version.