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Ariadne Conill 🐰

unix has a built in mansplaining function, you can just type man <topic> and it will mansplain <topic> to you

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Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
@ariadne internet should therefore be reserved for womansplaining.
lbky

@ariadne Though it does unnecessarily reinforce binary gender, Emacs provides the much superior woman.

sebsch

@ariadne we should have a tool called 'wo' simplifying the noisy stuff man is doing while encouraging understanding it.

wo man <stuff>

# it's actually quite simple to use <stuff>, there are several c calls to do that. Some of them are good others were written in the 70s and should not be used anymore.

... Explain

... Context explain

... Examples

Hope you're feeling better using that now <3

Eupeptic

@ariadne Sometimes. Sometimes it says "lol, it's still 1989, please say `info foo`, and try to follow the directions in a weird almost-hypertext browser with EMACS keybindings, lol"

DopeGhoti

@ariadne
Is it really mansplaining if it waits to be asked? (:

nyx

@ariadne man, the kiss version of info.

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