Re: manpage for GNU utilities?

[kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen)]

rlb@cs.utexas.edu (Rob Browning)  wrote on 22.02.98 in <[🔎] 87afbjwix4.fsf@nevermore.csres.utexas.edu>:

> It's an old observation, but how to you recursively search an html
> tree for the info you want (like Ctrl-s in info, Meta-s in emacs, or
> "/" in manpages with less?)

And the old answer is, of course, that just as with other tools, you need  
support for that in the help system. It's not a question of data format -  
neither roff nor TeXinfo format support searching _directly_, so why  
should HTML?

And since there are several solutions for searching HTML-based hypertext  
available today, the only remaining problem is to put a complete system  
together. Haven't several people tried to do this for Debian?

MfG Kai