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I love that man pages exist, and I get that they predate hypertext, but to me it’s always seemed like a glaring omission that individual man pages don’t link to
by adamlett 6y ago
I love that man pages exist, and I get that they predate hypertext, but to me it’s always seemed like a glaring omission that individual man pages don’t link to each other. So much so that for a long while I assumed that they did and that I just hadn’t figured out how to use them.
I wish using man pages felt more like it feels to use Wikipedia.
- iforgottherest 6y agohttps://man7.org/linux/man-pages/ https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/
- Erlangen 6y agoI find it convenient reading man pages in emacs (doom emacs in my case). The output is colorized, and the pages are linked.
- yakubin 6y agoThat's just because you view them in less. I usually view them in emacs, so links work just fine for me.
- OJFord 6y agoHm this looks good too: https://github.com/lambdalisue/vim-manpager https://github.com/lambdalisue/vim-manpager Any other suggestions? I only looked for a vim plugin since I already use vim, and would rather not add all of emacs just for man, but I wouldn't mind something standalone. Slightly surprised (having only briefly searched 'manpager github') not to find anything though.
- enriquto 6y agoman pages are hypertext, when you find foo(7) it points to the page "foo" from section 7. Whether you can "click" on this link depends largely on what program you are using to view the page.
- deleted 6y ago[deleted]
- dredmorbius 6y agoInstall dwww in Debian (Ubuntu, etc.) https://packages.debian.org/buster/dwww https://packages.debian.org/buster/dwww https://screenshots.debian.net/package/dwww https://screenshots.debian.net/package/dwww http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/bionic/man7/dwww.7.html http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/bionic/man7/dwww.7.html