[ug-bosug] man page browser

[Binu Jose Philip]

G N S <shivakumar.gn at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
>
> On 3/30/07, Sriram Popuri <sgpopuri at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>           Recently someone was asking me about a man page browser.
>      Found this interesting. Gives man pages of many OSes.
>      
>      http://modman.unixdev.net/
>      
>      But I guess this searches only the synopsis like apropos.
>      
>      Anything on similar lines or better?

If you use [X]emacs then "woman" can do the job. It does not need
an external formatter and does name completion. No apropos search.
But you get all editing bells and whistles on the man page also.

Yes, not useful without the emacs.

cheers
Binu

> tkman ( http://tkman.sourceforge.net ) does a decent job (tk based GUI manpage browser on the system).
> Not exactly like the one above. This offers lot more functionality than man command.
> For those who find man command incovenient to browser through and search different commands, tkman might be
> useful.
> regards
> ~Shiv
>
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