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by vortico 4110 days ago
Thanks for this link! I've always love reading GNU manuals in HTML because it relies on your browser's navigation, which is always better than what any website could implement itself. Ctrl-F is fast because scrolling is trivial and doesn't require a Javascript callback for every pixel scrolled, and without a CSS-customized div after every paragraph, you can load web pages containing 2MB of text just fine.
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Indeed. My 16 MHz Atari could handle homepages just fine. My 1.8 GHz laptop has troubles now and then and we should not speak about my 2 year old quad-core phone.
Why don't you read GNU manual with `man` in a terminal? (Genuine question)
Have to open up a new window anyway if it is any sort of long man-page that needs reading while constructing the command in another window?