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Looks pretty -- but the great thing about man is that it runs right there within the terminal. Switching to a GUI browser is a big mode shift and comes with all
by morsch 15y ago
Looks pretty -- but the great thing about man is that it runs right there within the terminal. Switching to a GUI browser is a big mode shift and comes with all sorts of distraction. Using a terminal browser like links is probably pretty clunky.
- Gjallarson 15y agoRunning in the terminal is the biggest advantage - moreover the terminal man-pages allow forward and backward search with vi-shortcuts, which makes searching them really easy and fast.
- petepete 15y agoLess can be made a bit easier to read, too. export LESS_TERMCAP_us=$'\e[32m' export LESS_TERMCAP_ue=$'\e[0m' export LESS_TERMCAP_md=$'\e[1;31m' export LESS_TERMCAP_me=$'\e[0m' export LESS=-R Results in: http://i.imgur.com/MRKEm.png http://i.imgur.com/MRKEm.png
- morsch 15y agoThe biggest improvement the web interface offers seems to be the outline on the right. For long man pages (man bash, I'm looking at you), that could be very useful. Anyway to do that in regular man?
- adestefan 15y agoinfo bash
- jimeh 15y agoTrue, and I agree. Man is great to pull up in a terminal when you quickly need to look up something. However when you're spending hours reading, scrolling and jumping all over a man page like I've been doing with tmux the last few days, smooth scrolling of a web browser is nicer. And the right-hand section outline helps too :)