Re: What to do with all the doc files in /usr/share/doc?

[Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>]

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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