Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4121 mails)

[Jonathan Arnold <jdarnold@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

BandiPat wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 October 2007, Carl Hartung wrote:
>> On Tue October 16 2007 01:56:03 pm Stan Goodman wrote:
>>>>> Not a good example. You found the man pages, which I found too.
>>>> Interesting perspective. I presume you navigated directly to
>>>> 'man/' and didn't bother to explore 'DOCS/'? Is that what you
>>>> did? tsk tsk! ;-)
>>> I'm not sure what you are saying. What I did first was to do <man
>>> mplayer> from a terminal. Then I wanted to find more readable
>>> documentation, and you know the rest. Why "tsk tsk"?
>> Sorry, I assumed you'd used Konqueror to go exploring that region of
>> your filesystem. You claimed mine wasn't a "good example" when, in
>> fact, it revealed a 'shouting' "DOCS/" directory just begging to be
>> drilled into. ;-)
>>
>> regards,
>>
>> Carl
>>
>> P.S. Please 'reply to' the list only. I'm already receiving your
>> posts and don't need second copies. Thx!
> 
> =======
> Carl,
> You bring up a good thought, but not using Konq as a file manager.  In 
> the URL box, you can type "man:mplayer" to pull up the html manual for 
> MPlayer easily.  Also for many of the KDE programs, you can 
> use "help:/<program name>" to pull stuff.  Very helpful and easily 
> bookmarked for later retrieval.  I have a separate bookmark heading to 
> store these in.

'#' is a shortcut for man# and ## is a shortcut for info:, as I documented
here in a short list of Konq shortcuts:

http://linuxbraindump.org/2007/08/31/konqueror-kwickies

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