New online man pages for Debian

Posted Feb 3, 2017 17:37 UTC (Fri) by ianmcc (subscriber, #88379)
In reply to: New online man pages for Debian by flussence
Parent article: New online man pages for Debian

I used to use konqeror a lot for the info: browsing. The only usable 'info' browser I have ever encountered. I haven't used it recently though, and I've switched distros in the meantime. Unfortunately it doesn't work on kubuntu 16.10 :-( Pretty hard to google for 'info', so not obvious how to get it working again. Sooner or later I'll miss it a lot.

New online man pages for Debian

Posted Feb 3, 2017 18:57 UTC (Fri) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link] (4 responses)

You might like "pinfo" - it uses a lynx-like keyboard setup (and palette), which makes for a much nicer experience than the default info program, imho.

New online man pages for Debian

Posted Feb 3, 2017 23:11 UTC (Fri) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link] (3 responses)

There was a script I found a while ago called "ilm" for "info like man" which took info pages and made them act like man (that is, with a sensible pager).

New online man pages for Debian

Posted Feb 3, 2017 23:20 UTC (Fri) by jwilk (subscriber, #63328) [Link] (2 responses)

This one?
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2013-May/...

I hoped for something more sophisticated...

New online man pages for Debian

Posted Feb 3, 2017 23:35 UTC (Fri) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link] (1 responses)

Looks like it. I don't use it much, but it's better than info at least.

New online man pages for Debian

Posted Jan 14, 2023 20:38 UTC (Sat) by jwilk (subscriber, #63328) [Link]

After 5 years of sweet procrastination, I wrote my own info viewer with man(1)-like UI:

https://github.com/jwilk/informan