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MarkWPiper
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 Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2004 5:32 am Post subject: Using / to search in man |
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It's of course obvious to all the vim users out there, but typing /something while using man will search for something in the page.
And it works for anything else that your pager is used for too. |
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xces
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| Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2004 12:17 pm Post subject: |
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You can also easily change the program, which will show the man page. If you do i. e.
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export PAGER="`which vim` -"
man somePage
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it will show the page in vim  You can also put 'cat' in there. Then it will just output the whole man page.
It even works with X programs (I've tried with gvim). |
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pi314
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| Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2004 12:48 pm Post subject: |
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the /something search is also working within mozilla 
but how can I get to the next matching result? |
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xces
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| Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2004 1:00 pm Post subject: |
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| When using less (which is standard) you can jump to the next match pressing 'n'. |
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pi314
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| Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2004 12:43 pm Post subject: |
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thx xces
... and "strg+g" or "f3" within mozilla |
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MighMoS
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| Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2004 3:04 pm Post subject: |
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| Thankyou very much, this will help a lot when searching through lengthy man pages on the Pentium 1 |
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Ronald Dehuysser
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| Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2004 9:25 pm Post subject: man |
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When you type
in the location bar of Konqueror you can really search through all your man pages... and of course, this is really nicer to read...
Have fun,
Ronald |
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TGL
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| Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2004 11:06 am Post subject: |
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On this topic, you can also read this thread: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=80756
I personnaly use this (in ~/.bashrc): | Code: | #-------- vman,gman: (g)vim as a manpager ---------
# text mode
vman () {
/usr/bin/man $* -P "col -bp \
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-c 'set ft=man nomod nolist laststatus=0' \
-c 'so \$VIMRUNTIME/macros/less.vim' -"
}
# x11 mode
gman () {
( # subshell so that it doesn't report exit
args="`echo $* | sed 's:\ :\\\ :g'`"
COLUMNS=78 /usr/bin/man $* -P "col -b \
| gvim -f -R --noplugin \
--cmd 'set guioptions-=m guioptions-=T guioptions-=t' \
-c 'set ft=man nomod nolist laststatus=0 columns=80 titlestring=man\ $args' \
-c 'so \$VIMRUNTIME/macros/less.vim' - " &> /dev/null &
)
} |
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