Hi
We all know how important it is to read man pages. I would like to
collect info on different ways to read the man pages. My favorites are
as follows
1) man pagename
2) In konqueror, man:pagename
3) In vim, Man pagename
What about others?
thanks
raju
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On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 08:14:43PM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
> Hi
> We all know how important it is to read man pages. I would like to
> collect info on different ways to read the man pages. My favorites are
> as follows
>
> 1) man pagename
> 2) In konqueror, man:pagename
> 3) In vim,
On 10/22/05, kamaraju kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>We all know how important it is to read man pages. I would like to
> collect info on different ways to read the man pages. My favorites are
> as follows
>
> 1) man pagename
> 2) In konqueror, man:pagename
> 3) In vim, Man pagename
>
>
Quoting kamaraju kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hi
>We all know how important it is to read man pages. I
> would like to collect info on different ways to read the
> man pages. My
> favorites are as follows
>
> 1) man pagename
> 2) In konqueror, man:pagename
> 3) In vim, Man pagename
>
>
Michael Marsh wrote:
info pagename
info is nice, but I much prefer pinfo, which is basically the same thing
with colors.
Regards,
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On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 10:01:18PM -0500, Ephemeral root wrote:
> pages. Sadly many man pages lack real world examples that
> would help clarify otherwise abstruse or overly abstract
> explanations.
I think that's because the man pages aren't really for new
users. The documents in /usr/share/doc a
kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
Hi
We all know how important it is to read man pages. I would like to
collect info on different ways to read the man pages. My favorites are
as follows
1) man pagename
2) In konqueror, man:pagename
3) In vim, Man pagename
What about others?
thanks
raju
Or per
Another way to read man pages is by installing man2html, and then
entering the address http://localhost/cgi-bin/man/man2html in any web
browser.
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Titus Barik wrote:
> info is nice, but I much prefer pinfo, which is basically the same thing
> with colors.
One up on pinfo for KDE users is "info:/" in the Konqueror URL box.
Eyecandy for info pages, it's amazing how things have changed. :-)
Somewhere is a list of nifty URI's like these:
syste
The KDE and Gnome help applications (khelpcenter and yelp) both show
the man pages. Useful if you are not sure exactly what you are looking
for.
Later, Seeker
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On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 10:01:18PM -0500, Ephemeral root wrote:
> More often than not the first few pages of a google search
> will provide you with better documentation than most man
> pages. Sadly many man pages lack real world examples that
> would help clarify otherwise abstruse or overly abstr
On Saturday 22 October 2005 07:14 pm, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
> Hi
>We all know how important it is to read man pages. I would like to
> collect info on different ways to read the man pages. My favorites are
> as follows
>
> 1) man pagename
> 2) In konqueror, man:pagename
> 3) In vim, Man pa
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