Timeline for Dynamically reformatting man pages on terminal dimension changes
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| Oct 11, 2020 at 10:11 | comment | added | camh | @ratijas: "You may want to use a custom configuration just for man pages and invoke a script that invokes the browser with that specific configuration." was meant to imply that, but I guess it wasn't all that clear. Edit suggestion applied. Thanks | |
| S Oct 11, 2020 at 10:10 | history | suggested | ratijas | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Explain where manlynx comes from
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| Oct 10, 2020 at 12:40 | comment | added | ratijas |
@camh You know, nothing in that text implied that manlynx is something users are supposed to write on their own. I've sent an edit suggestion just now.
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| Oct 10, 2020 at 9:54 | comment | added | camh |
@ratijas -Hmanlynx is an example of how you could write your own wrapper script called manlynx that invokes lynx with options that may make more sense for viewing man pages. It is something I made up for the purposes of this answer.
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| Oct 10, 2020 at 9:53 | comment | added | ratijas |
Also, man -Hlynx man falls short on its first page: table (actually a list formatted thereof) of sections is replaced by "Image grohtml-5000141.png". I wonder, is there any workaround?
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| Oct 10, 2020 at 9:51 | comment | added | ratijas |
Could someone elaborate on -Hmanlynx? I can't find anything about it.
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| Jun 27, 2011 at 9:07 | vote | accept | peth | ||
| Apr 16, 2011 at 6:49 | comment | added | Robin Green | That's true, it's certainly a valid answer. | |
| Apr 16, 2011 at 6:31 | comment | added | camh |
@Robin Green: The question is about supporting man pages in re-sizable terminal windows. In that context not using a webserver is not a limitation. And not having hyperlinks is not a limitation, since man pages displayed in less do not have hyperlinks.
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| Apr 16, 2011 at 6:12 | comment | added | Robin Green |
The limitation of the -H argument to man is that it doesn't use a webserver, but simply a small file. While this avoids any problems with misconfigured firewalls, it doesn't allow hyperlinks to other man pages to be generated (which at least some third-party man->html scripts support).
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| Apr 15, 2011 at 22:56 | history | answered | camh | CC BY-SA 3.0 |