Browse man pages in style with your personal manservant

Re:Browse man pages in style with your personal manservant by Gjallarson on Thursday May 03, 2012 @07:25AM (#3923259)

Running 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.

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Re:Browse man pages in style with your personal manservant by petepete on Thursday May 03, 2012 @07:31AM (#3923283)

Less 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

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Re:Browse man pages in style with your personal manservant by morsch on Thursday May 03, 2012 @08:23AM (#3923499)

The 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?

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Re:Browse man pages in style with your personal manservant by adestefan on Thursday May 03, 2012 @09:09AM (#3923664)

    info bash

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