s. keeling wrote: > I always tell newbies, "xman -notopbox -bothshown &", giving them a > pointy-clickey interface to man. I would like it if all manpages > included an example usage section. That's missing in many. > > And though I tend to like it, the Openlook interface of xman is a > little dated, and perhaps xman should fork (perhaps it has?) and > produce alternatives that don't expect Openlook's oddball mouse > actions to drive it.
There are tons of ways to read man pages. I tried to summarize whatever I know at http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/2007/03/various-ways-of-reading-man-pages.html I have added your xman trick there. Thanks for pointing it out. hth raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
