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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="joey"
+ subject="""comment 4"""
+ date="2023-01-16T18:22:16Z"
+ content="""
+Reviewing this, I think what we've shown is that there's no good way to
+shorten it, that does not have other tradeoffs!
+
+And what's the real problem with the man page being a bit longer?
+Most users are probably not reading through all that, but are searching.
+And users who do read through it get to see around 5 commands summarized
+per page on their 25 line dumb terminal. Those of us with modern hardware
+can often see considerably more commands per page.
+"""]]