Re: What to do with all the doc files in /usr/share/doc?
Jim Lynch <k4gvo@qsl.net> writes:
> For years now, I've been seeing the vast quantities of files in that
> directory and other than going in and zmoreing them, I haven't figured
> out how to read them. By now I'm sure someone has developed a browser
> or other means of indexing them, searching them and displaying them. I
> just can't figure out what it is.
Try:
export LESSCLOSE='/usr/bin/lessfile %s %s'
export LESSOPEN='/usr/bin/lessfile %s'
If you use Emacs, try:
M-x customize-option RET auto-compression-mode RET
and toggle this option on.
Try:
aptitude install dwww
and read the doc files from your browser. This does appear to do some
indexing on the man pages, but I don't think it does a full-text
indexing of the other files. If you hear of a tool that does, let us
know. I suppose you could let Google spider it ;-) and use
site:yourhost in a Google search.
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