On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 10:17:23AM -0800, Carl Johnson wrote: > You can use dwww to view man pages and info in a web browser, as well > as the other documentation. That allows you to search using the > browser capabilities (using / for w3m), although it doesn't supply the > TOC, index or hyperlinks. I usually prefer man pages directly with > less as my pager, but sometimes dwww also works well. >
If you have the whole groff installed, you can use man -H to get that, but again I don't think you get hyperlinks. > Info pages are almost unusable for me, but the html view in dwww makes > them almost bearable. The problem with info pages is that they are a > book format, so it is difficult for quick lookup. They have a TOC and > index, but they seem to index things in ways that I find almost > incomprehensible, so I usually end up having to page though everything > before I find what I want. Since they are multiple pages, that means > that having to hunt down every link to try to find all of the pages. Agreed, I hate info more than man, even with pinfo. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
