Man page help under KDE 2.1.1
When I use the KDE 2.1.1 help facility, go to Contents, and then to Unix Manual Pages, all the listed items show "no idea yet". As I remember, KDE 2.1 Help was able to display man pages. Is there a workaround to get Help to display the pages in this newer version? If not, what's the best way to look at reasonably formatted man pages? Paul Abrahams
Although the items listed show "no idea yet" if you click on the item you will see the man page for that item. At least that is my experience. Try it! Eddie On Monday 23 April 2001 22:10, Paul Abrahams wrote:
When I use the KDE 2.1.1 help facility, go to Contents, and then to Unix Manual Pages, all the listed items show "no idea yet". As I remember, KDE 2.1 Help was able to display man pages. Is there a workaround to get Help to display the pages in this newer version? If not, what's the best way to look at reasonably formatted man pages?
Paul Abrahams
Eddie Howson wrote:
On Monday 23 April 2001 22:10, Paul Abrahams wrote:
When I use the KDE 2.1.1 help facility, go to Contents, and then to Unix Manual Pages, all the listed items show "no idea yet". As I remember, KDE 2.1 Help was able to display man pages. Is there a workaround to get Help to display the pages in this newer version? If not, what's the best way to look at reasonably formatted man pages?
Although the items listed show "no idea yet" if you click on the item you will see the man page for that item. At least that is my experience. Try it!
Actually, I was looking for the one-line summaries such as appear in the "apropos" output. The problem is this: suppose you're looking for a program that does a particular thing (in my case, gives information about an X window). If you don't know its name, you don't want to have to open every conceivable man page - you want to scan the summaries. Those summaries aren't there, but they should be. They exist in the whatis file, but in a jumbled order. Paul Abrahams
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