[dundee] Man Page Search Engine

[Rick Moynihan]

Yup, and there's M-x woman in Emacs! :-)

The advantage the site I posted has, is completeness, covering all the
debian packages...  Sometimes it's good to get an overview of a
command before you install it.

On 11 March 2010 16:41, Robert Ladyman <it at file-away.co.uk> wrote:
> In Konqueror, just type man: and then the command (or part of it). The joy of
> KDE
>
> RJL
>
>
>> On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:30:53 +0000
>>
>> Rick Moynihan <rick.moynihan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Just discovered this site, it's an online archive and search engine
>> > for almost every man page!
>> >
>> > http://man.cx/
>> >
>> > It also has comments at the bottom, for users to ask questions and
>> > post tips etc...
>> >
>> > It's not perfect, but it's pretty cool, especially if you want to view
>> > the man page of software you haven't installed.
>>
>> Puppy Linux uses http://linux.die.net/man/ for its man pages. It
>> actually launches a browser window at the right page when using man in
>> a terminal. Gentoo users, if you're REALLY short on space, you can use
>> the "noman" feature in make.conf to stop Portage installing man pages.
>> That's my useless fact for the day. :)
>>
>> James
>>
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