Mandoc, the default manpage formatter in OpenBSD, Illumos, Minix, and some Linux distributions, does semantically parse manpages. The latest version even uses l

Mandoc, the default manpage formatter in OpenBSD, Illumos, Minix, and some Linux distributions, does semantically parse manpages. The latest version even uses less’s tags functionality to allow jumping to flag definitions. For example, if I “man ls”, I can then type :tx to go to the definition of the -h flag, without hitting any false positives like a text search might. http://mdocml.bsd.lv/ http://mdocml.bsd.lv/