Re: Menu access to /usr/doc
Helmut Metzdorf hat gesagt: // Helmut Metzdorf wrote:
> Hi,
>
> considering myself still a novice to linux i spend lots of time
> reading documentation. first i complained about most of it beeing
> compressed text but soon i found a solution (zcat | xless).
A even better solution is to setup less to use a lesspipe. Please read
/usr/doc/less/LESSOPEN.gz for this.
Then you can read gzipped files, have a look in .tar.gzfiles or in
.deb-files with a single command: less.
> but the laborous method of tangling through several subdirectories was
> something quite itching, so next i tried to write a menu-sourcefile to
> provide faster access, but soon found it to be a tantalus-task when i
> got an idea of the total volume even with a rather spartan installation.
>
> so i started thinking about how a programm schould be designed to do
> the job. and now i'm rather content knowing there's no text-document
> (plain or compressed) in /usr/doc (and all subdirectories) further
> away than two mouseclicks - neatly ordered to their appropriate
> section (devel, libs, admin, utils etc.) and sorted.
> [...]
You can get easy access to all debian documentation by installing
package dwww plus a webbrowser and a webserver. dwww is a program
"designed to do the job" you want.
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