Re: [Groff] Simplifying groff documentation

[Michael(tm) Smith]

Ralph Corderoy <address@hidden>, 2006-12-31 12:42 +0000:

> For those of us that think browsers are a poor way to read documentation
> like man pages, e.g. poor searching, no remembering the scroll-bar
> position, etc., presumably there will be a way we can keep the old
> behaviour on a per-user basis?  I like using less(1) because of the
> immediacy of the result in the context where I'm working, or sometimes
> vim(1) for the same reason plus it turns man pages references into tags
> with a tag-stack.

You could use a console/curses-based browser, right? lynx or
elinks or w3m. I'd think paging through a man page with one of
those would be much the same as you have with less(1) now. Except,
for one thing, you'd actually be able to follow inline hyperlinks.

  --Mike

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