Re: Debian Linux

[Chris Jones <cjns1989@gmail.com>]

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 05:19:17AM EDT, Harry Rickards wrote:

[..]

> >> It seems that there are many new users who prefer to read their man
> >> pages with their web browser. That's why they are online (and can be
> >> found with google).

> > most new users don't now the existence of the automatically
> > installed man pages.  admittedly i also find it more readable in a
> > browser. 

And easier to navigate when they have been converted to html, e.g.

http://manpages.courier-mta.org/mansection1.html

You should keep in mind that these are likely not current or in sync'
with your system.

> I admit that instead of just doing 'man whatever', I pipe it through
> less with 'man whatever|less', which lets me get rid of the annoying
> text at the bottom, and replacing it with a ':' which I'm more used to
> from vi/vim.

Not meant to annoy you, just a reminder of the actual page you are
reading.. useful if you did a "man -a".

For some nice colors, you could source this bash one-liner:

vman() { MANWIDTH=112 man $* | col -b | view  -c 'set ft=man nomod nolist' -; }

And replace "man manpage" by "vman manpage".

Probably found it on the vim web site.

CJ