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It seems to be a searchable man page index. What does it offer that google+terminal don't offer?

• OJFord 10y ago
  > What does it offer that google+terminal don't offer? Hyperlinks and the "referenced by" section are pretty neat.
• scolvin 10y ago
  Man pages in the terminal are pretty annoying as you can't (easily) search them. By "Google" I presume you mean online indexes of man pages E.g. This site. The other man pages sites are ugly, old and incomplete, despite that done of them rank pretty high on Alexa. I built this site to end up smarter, more modern, easier to use and more complete. Still a work in progress atm.
  • to3m 10y ago
    On Firefox, code examples are sometimes 1-2 pixels longer than their viewport, so you can get a fairly pointless scrollbar. See, e.g., https://helpmanual.io/man3/printf/ https://helpmanual.io/man3/printf/ One suggestion: how about guessing at hyperlinks. For example, there are a few underlined instances of `size_t' in the printf man page. If you ask for the size_t man page, you get the man page for stdint. Suppose I had a device on my desk that could automate this sort of drudgery for me... (I did something like this for my patched version of Bwana: https://bitbucket.org/tom_seddon/bwana https://bitbucket.org/tom_seddon/bwana, original: https://www.bruji.com/bwana/ https://www.bruji.com/bwana/ - works well, at least for the OS X man pages. My code only looks for man pages with the exact name, though, since it runs on demand. If you're doing a preprocess to generate all the pages ahead of time then you could perhaps afford to be more thorough.)
  • rovr138 10y ago
    > Man pages in the terminal are pretty annoying as you can't (easily) search them. The content? Type / then your search term.