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
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"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
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
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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
"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?
> >
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
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
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
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
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
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
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