Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1461 mails)

[Joachim Schrod <jschrod@xxxxxxx>]

Joachim Schrod wrote:
> John E. Perry wrote:
> > I've used unix for decades, and I've always despised the stupid man
> > paradigm.  Basically, to find anything in man, you have to know it
> > already, and even apropos doesn't help a lot.  A curses implementation
> > would have helped, but it was never developed, as far as I know.
>
> Concerning curses implementation -- why not a GUI? For the old
> timers, there has always been xman and tkman, of course. Both also
> provide a browser for man pages.
> To get an overview, there is an intro man page in each section.
>
> Full text search in man pages is supplied by several options that
> were not available in the past, admittedly.

I hate to replying to myself -- but do you realize that both man
pages and info documentation are also presented by susehelp?
Section "Administration / Linux Documentation". Maybe there are
even searchable there, I haven't needed to use susehelp search much.

        Joachim

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Joachim Schrod                          Email: jschrod@xxxxxxx
Roedermark, Germany

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