Re: man tool
However, the real issue is what you just said: any improvement! If that
is the issue, here's the problem: getting all of the cats hearded into
moving in the "right" direction. But that's another HOWTO. ;-)
The problem is with the system that is set up. Most new people to Linux
are familiar with HTML stuff, why not start with that, but them move
away from the current man page approach to XML and allows searches
multiple ways. Just a thought.
Kevin
Alex Jacques wrote:
>
> 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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