Hackers' Pub

Syntax	Description	Examples
`"` keyword `"`	Finds the string within quotes, including spaces. Case-insensitive. (Escape quotes inside with `\"`)	`"Hackers' Pub"`
`from:` handle	Finds content written by the specified user.	`from:hongminhee` `from:hongminhee@hollo.social`
`lang:` ISO 639-1	Finds content written in the specified language.	`lang:en`
`#` tag	Finds content with the specified tag. Case-insensitive.	`#HackersPub`
condition condition	Finds content that satisfies both conditions on either side of the space (logical AND).	`"Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
condition `OR` condition	Finds content that satisfies at least one of the conditions on either side of the OR operator (logical OR).	`#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
`(` condition `)`	Combines the operators within the parentheses first.	`(#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" OR "Hackers Pub") lang:en`

David JONES @drj@typo.social

3/9/2026, 4:43:32 PM

Public

My reward for reading That Blog Article and thinking, you know what? man pages _are_ cool; i will install the man page:

; man -M man vi
zcat: can't stat: man/man1/vi.1 (man/man1/vi.1.gz): No such file or directory
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(the particular implementation of the online manual was, in my opinion, the start of the fall of Unix. The idea that man pages needed to be pre-compiled, compressed, DLC, or built with only proprietary tools is Just Not Unix. Case in point: Weird that the early man program doesn’t just take a file arg and nroff it to show me)

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