[HackerQED]

A fun idea, but it should not be put in the ordinary flow. It will hurt users.

`man -abba` would be nicer, as the author said in the original post.

[kevincox]

The first answer explains that it was only supposed to trigger on error cases (no page specified) but due to an oversight also triggered if you specified a man page by the --path flag (rather than just the page name)

[DonHopkins]

  $ man --abba --format=json
  ["gimme", "gimme", "gimme"]

[thih9]

It has been removed, see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41738239