Re: man tool
Any improvement to the usability of GNU/Linux documentation is welcome.
However, in order to avoid duplication of effort I suggest you investigate
the dwww Debian package if you're not already familiar with it. It has some
nice search features. It seems a little strange to setup a web server just
for local use of one machine, but I found that with the Debian packaging
system it was effortless (just make sure port 80 is blocked from the outside
world by your firewall).
Also, if you're a KDE user, try the search features of the KDE help center,
which uses htdig for searching. On my system if I press "update index" the
man pages and info manuals are still grayed out (I'm running KDE 2.2beta),
but it looks like this capability will be added?
On Wednesday 15 August 2001 04:22 am, Mij wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I'm thinking to start to develop an easy tool to search through man
> pages. It should find strings and return a list of voices. Any voice is
> the name to request to man ("man voice") to view the page containing
> finded string.
>
> This is really useful for programmers. Too many times they need to find
> a function's description or the form of a struct.
>
> The idea is that:
>
> -=> "man-search _options_ string"
>
> string: voice
> string: voice
> string: voice
> etc <=-
>
> and the method:
> get the paths (easy, with manpath)
> start grep with correct arguments (why implement another, if it's so
> useful?) parsing results
> returning formatted output
>
> My time's not infinite. In this days i'm almost busy with other
> programs. If any wants to partecipate development, lets contact me
> at address mij@fastwebnet.it.
>
> bye
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