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Bear proposal: ManPageLintBear #1831

Open satwikkansal opened 7 years ago

satwikkansal commented 7 years ago

I was reading up https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2016-06/msg00007.html and found a couple of interesting tools to lint man-pages.

Igor: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/igor/ Mdoclint: http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/textproc/mdoclint/

Files like package.json contain fields for man-pages, may be we can extract man pages info from such files and then feed it into these linters.

jayvdb commented 6 years ago

This issue reserved for Google Code-in task 5341402884997120.