FVWM: Man page too long

2002-11-23 Thread Felix E. Klee
Hi, I'm trying to set up FVWM2. However, browsing the man page is tedious since it is extremely long. Is it available divided into subsections in INFO, HTML, or some other format? Felix -- Visit the official FVWM web page at http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscrib

Re: FVWM: Man page too long

2002-11-23 Thread Dan Espen
"Felix E. Klee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I'm trying to set up FVWM2. However, browsing the man page is tedious since > it > is extremely long. Is it available divided into subsections in INFO, HTML, or > some other format? HTML: http://www.fvwm.org/generated/manpages/fvwm2.html

Re: FVWM: Man page too long

2002-11-23 Thread Marcus Lundblad
On Sat, 23 Nov 2002, Dan Espen wrote: > I find reading man pages with XEmacs the best way to go. > > Start XEmacs, type esc x man fvwm2 It ofcourse works in "ordninary" Emacs also: Meta-x man fvwm2 //Marcus > > -- > Dan Espen E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- > V

Re: FVWM: Man page too long

2002-11-23 Thread Felix E. Klee
On Saturday 23 November 2002 04:26 pm, Dan Espen wrote: > > I'm trying to set up FVWM2. However, browsing the man page is tedious > > since it is extremely long. Is it available divided into subsections in > > INFO, HTML, or some other format? > > HTML: > > http://www.fvwm.org/generated/manpages/fv

Re: FVWM: Man page too long

2002-11-23 Thread Dan Espen
"Felix E. Klee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Saturday 23 November 2002 04:26 pm, Dan Espen wrote: > > > I'm trying to set up FVWM2. However, browsing the man page is tedious > > > since it is extremely long. Is it available divided into subsections in > > > INFO, HTML, or some other format? > >

Re: FVWM: Man page too long

2002-11-23 Thread Felix E. Klee
On Saturday 23 November 2002 04:52 pm, Dan Espen wrote: > > Thanks, but it's not divided into sub sections and therefore offers no > > great advantage to the text mode man page for me. > > Near the top, click on "this page contents". Not bad, but still not convenient. It would be better if the doc

Re: FVWM: Man page too long

2002-11-23 Thread Norvell Spearman
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 04:59:57PM +0100, Felix E. Klee wrote: > Not bad, but still not convenient. It would be better if the document was > separated into subdocuments, especially for searching. I did this on my system: $ cp /usr/man/man1/fvwm.1.bz2 ~/tmp $ cd ~/tmp $ bzip2 -d fvwm.1.bz2 $ man2

Re: FVWM: Man page too long

2002-11-23 Thread Felix E. Klee
On Saturday 23 November 2002 07:19 pm, Norvell Spearman wrote: > I did this on my system: > > $ cp /usr/man/man1/fvwm.1.bz2 ~/tmp > $ cd ~/tmp > $ bzip2 -d fvwm.1.bz2 > $ man2html fvwm.1 > fvwm.html > $ htmldoc -f fvwm.pdf fvwm.html > > It gave me a really nice pdf file with a table of contents, cl

Re: FVWM: Man page too long

2002-11-23 Thread Norvell Spearman
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 07:26:24PM +0100, Felix E. Klee wrote: > Yes, but in your case searching still affects the whole document or am I > missing something? In one posting you use the words ``sub sections'' and in the next ``subdocuments.'' I didn't try the other methods offered, but the pdf f

Re: FVWM: Man page too long

2002-11-23 Thread Felix E. Klee
On Saturday 23 November 2002 07:50 pm, Norvell Spearman wrote: > > Yes, but in your case searching still affects the whole document or am I > > missing something? > > In one posting you use the words ``sub sections'' and in the next > ``subdocuments.'' I didn't try the other methods offered, but t

Re: FVWM: Man page too long

2002-11-23 Thread Norvell Spearman
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 08:08:23PM +0100, Felix E. Klee wrote: > For example, I don't like it if I search for "pager" in "The Virtual Desktop" > and end up in "Initialization". Ah, I see your point. I know that some programs (on my system, at least) have both man pages and info pages. tar and g