Re: Debian User List

[Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <kamaraju@bluebottle.com>]

s. keeling wrote:

> I always tell newbies, "xman -notopbox -bothshown &", giving them a
> pointy-clickey interface to man.  I would like it if all manpages
> included an example usage section.  That's missing in many.
> 
> And though I tend to like it, the Openlook interface of xman is a
> little dated, and perhaps xman should fork (perhaps it has?) and
> produce alternatives that don't expect Openlook's oddball mouse
> actions to drive it.

There are tons of ways to read man pages. I tried to summarize whatever I
know at

http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/2007/03/various-ways-of-reading-man-pages.html

I have added your xman trick there. Thanks for pointing it out.

hth
raju


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