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Docs: Help Debian users rename man page from ack-grep to ack #473

Closed mcandre closed 8 years ago

mcandre commented 10 years ago

For Debian/Ubuntu users who get ack through ack-grep, and want to rename ack-grep to grep, it's not enough to rename the binary, but the man page as well (or else man ack fails).

Could we please offer a bash command for this alongside the binary-renaming command?

petdance commented 10 years ago

It's my understanding that this won't be necessary because ack-the-old is going away and ack-grep is getting renamed to ack.

mcandre commented 10 years ago

Good to know!

Maybe we could pastebin install notes for older Debian/Ubuntu versions (14.04- ?) for which this would remain a problem.

On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Andy Lester notifications@github.com wrote:

It's my understanding that this won't be necessary because ack-the-old is going away and ack-grep is getting renamed to ack.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/petdance/ack2/issues/473#issuecomment-48642370.

Cheers,

Andrew Pennebaker www.yellosoft.us

petdance commented 10 years ago

I'm up for adding docs. I just don't know where I'd put 'em. pastebin isn't a good solution for long-term docs.

mcandre commented 10 years ago

Gist https://gist.github.com/?

We could reserve a GitHub page https://pages.github.com/ for Debian notes.

On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Andy Lester notifications@github.com wrote:

I'm up for adding docs. I just don't know where I'd put 'em. pastebin isn't a good solution for long-term docs.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/petdance/ack2/issues/473#issuecomment-48651714.

Cheers,

Andrew Pennebaker www.yellosoft.us

petdance commented 10 years ago

What I'm saying is that if we need to have notes about something ack it needs to be part of the repo and distribution itself, not an outside dump.