Browse man pages in style with your personal manservant(github.com)
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Browse man pages in style with your personal manservant
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Looks pretty -- but the great thing about man is that it runs right there within the terminal. Switching to a GUI browser is a big mode shift and comes with all sorts of distraction. Using a terminal browser like links is probably pretty clunky.
Running in the terminal is the biggest advantage - moreover the terminal man-pages allow forward and backward search with vi-shortcuts, which makes searching them really easy and fast.
Less can be made a bit easier to read, too.
export LESS_TERMCAP_us=$'\e[32m'
export LESS_TERMCAP_ue=$'\e[0m'
export LESS_TERMCAP_md=$'\e[1;31m'
export LESS_TERMCAP_me=$'\e[0m'
export LESS=-R
True, and I agree. Man is great to pull up in a terminal when you quickly need to look up something.
However when you're spending hours reading, scrolling and jumping all over a man page like I've been doing with tmux the last few days, smooth scrolling of a web browser is nicer. And the right-hand section outline helps too :)
However when you're spending hours reading, scrolling and jumping all over a man page like I've been doing with tmux the last few days, smooth scrolling of a web browser is nicer. And the right-hand section outline helps too :)
I believe html manpages are built in to most Linux distros' default apache install (or at least easy to set up).
http://localhost/cgi-bin/man/man2html
At least on Ubuntu, after apt-get install apache2, the URL above works.
http://localhost/cgi-bin/man/man2html
At least on Ubuntu, after apt-get install apache2, the URL above works.
404 for me on Debian Wheezy.
Back in the day, there was xman:
http://www.x.org/archive/X11R7.5/doc/man/man1/xman.1.html
What I'd like is something like this that would also try and gather up stuff from info and /usr/share/doc/PROGRAM/ or whereever it is on the current system and possibly even online docs and try to present them in a reasonably consistent fashion, or at least have it all accessible in one place. But that's a little more ambitious. Also it'd have a terminal program that was a shortcut to remote open a tab in your browser and focus it. The latter would be nice for this.
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