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Re: ways to read man pages



On 10/22/05, kamaraju kusumanchi <raju.mailinglists@gmail.com> wrote:
>    We all know how important it is to read man pages. I would like to
> collect info on different ways to read the man pages. My favorites are
> as follows
>
> 1) man pagename
> 2) In konqueror, man:pagename
> 3) In vim, Man pagename
>
> What about others?

info pagename

If there's an info page, it will be displayed, if not the man page is
displayed.  In the "See Also" section, the cross-references become
links, so that hitting return on one of them takes you to its
documentation.

--
Michael A. Marsh
http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh
http://mamarsh.blogspot.com



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