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Yet another way to read beautifully formatted man pages
This is nice, but it does assume that you are always connected to the net, and it does take a moment or two for the webpage to load.
Personally, I like to use the following. The output is in plain text rather than a pretty webpage, but it is instantaneous, requires no network connection, and gives you all the functions and convenience of TextEdit (or whatever other text editor you choose to use) while working with man pages. Just add the following lines to .profile (or .bash_profile or whatever applies to your situation) in your home folder.
Yet another way to read beautifully formatted man pages
For those of who like to use vim:
Yet another way to read beautifully formatted man pages
Actually, if you're using vim, put this into your .vimrc: and then, from inside vim, you can type ":Man whatever" (yes, the M must be uppercase) to get nice syntax-colored (you do have Oh, and if you haven't checked out a recent version of MacVim, definitely give it a whirl -- it's awesome (best version of the best text editor ever, and it's free).
Yet another way to read beautifully formatted man pages
This is what I settled on using MacVim:
Yet another way to read beautifully formatted man pages
Thanks for your suggestion -- you're right about the speed, and of course yours works offine. I added that too and now I have both. |
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