On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 10:52:33AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 04:31:12PM +0100, Michael Mauch > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I think a decent search facility is a must for more in-depth > > documentation. If I _know_ that I want to use newwin(3), I can easily > > type "man newwin". But if I just want to get started with curses, I am > > really lost after "man -k curses". A hierarchical "book" (be it in > > HTML or in info format) with a "Getting started" topic is a lot more > > user-friendly in such cases. > > Most man pages have a "SEE ALSO" section. Accessing these through dwww > links to the related manpages, access via 'man' is left as an exercise > to the reader.
I'd love to be able to get SEE ALSO links working in 'man -H'. Unfortunately it's not really feasible without well-defined man: URLs implemented in most browsers, which I don't see happening any time soon. A shame. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
