On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 05:19:17AM EDT, Harry Rickards wrote: [..]
> >> It seems that there are many new users who prefer to read their man > >> pages with their web browser. That's why they are online (and can be > >> found with google). > > most new users don't now the existence of the automatically > > installed man pages. admittedly i also find it more readable in a > > browser. And easier to navigate when they have been converted to html, e.g. http://manpages.courier-mta.org/mansection1.html You should keep in mind that these are likely not current or in sync' with your system. > I admit that instead of just doing 'man whatever', I pipe it through > less with 'man whatever|less', which lets me get rid of the annoying > text at the bottom, and replacing it with a ':' which I'm more used to > from vi/vim. Not meant to annoy you, just a reminder of the actual page you are reading.. useful if you did a "man -a". For some nice colors, you could source this bash one-liner: vman() { MANWIDTH=112 man $* | col -b | view -c 'set ft=man nomod nolist' -; } And replace "man manpage" by "vman manpage". Probably found it on the vim web site. CJ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
