Subject: Re: bug#20035: GNU coreutils 8.4 October 2014 TR(1)
From: Pádraig Brady <[email-masked]>
To: James Geller <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 08 Mar 2015 11:40:12 +0000
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

On 08/03/15 03:11, James Geller wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This is not a bug report.
> 
> I just wanted to say, it would be SO nice if you could include 3 or 45 examples in the man pages.
> 
> It would have made my life easier.
> It took me a while and a Google search to get it to work.
> 
> Please write documentation for people who need documentation.
> Don't write documentation for people who don't need documentation.

The man pages are a trade-off between brevity and completeness.
The full docs have examples: http://www.gnu.org/s/coreutils/tr
The next version of the man pages will link directly to the above.
Hence I'm closing this.

thanks,
Pádraig.