misc/py-cppman 0.6.3_1 DragonFly

C++ 98/11/14/17/20 manual pages on the terminal

System: DragonFly
Repository: DPorts
Maintainer: [email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
License: GPLv3
Categories: misc, python
Package size: 604.8 KiB, 3424.0 KiB installed

Description

Cppman is a tool that provides C++ manual pages on the terminal. It acts as a convenient interface to view formatted C++ documentation directly from cplusplus.com and cppreference.com, allowing developers to access relevant information quickly without switching to a web browser.

Features:

Supports two backends (switch it with cppman -s): cplusplus.com cppreference.com
Syntax highlighting support for sections and example source code.
Usage/Interface similar to the 'man' command
Hyperlink between manpages (only available when pager=vim)
- Press Ctrl-] when cursor is on keyword to go forward and Ctrl-T to go backward.
- You can also double-click on keyword to go forward and right-click to go backward.
Frequently update to support cplusplus.com.

In the other systems

The newest version among them is 0.6.3, as upstream numbers it.

System

Port

Version

Vulnerabilities

Status

Maintainer

Last update

DragonFly

misc/py-cppman

0.6.3_1 newest

none known

[email protected]

FreeBSD

misc/py-cppman

0.6.3_1 newest

none known

[email protected]

2026-09-06

HardenedBSD

misc/py-cppman

0.6.3_1 newest

no data

[email protected]

GhostBSD

misc/py-cppman

0.6.3_1 newest

no data

[email protected]

Version history 1

0.6.3 2026-11-11

Upstream's version as each commit to the port's Makefile set it, or as this site first saw it in the system's packages; the tree's own revisions are not versions here.

Install

Binary package:

pkg install py312-cppman

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/misc/py-cppman && make install clean

Dependency graph

Ports that need it on the left, what it needs to run on the right; at most 8 of each. "Dependencies" below lists them all.

graph LR
  me["misc/py-cppman"]
  me --> d0["converters/py-webencodings"]
  me --> d1["devel/py-lxml"]
  me --> d2["devel/py-six"]
  me --> d3["devel/py-typing-extensions"]
  me --> d4["editors/vim"]
  me --> d5["lang/python312"]
  me --> d6["shells/bash"]
  me --> d7["www/py-beautifulsoup4"]
  me -.-> dmore(["2 more"])
  classDef this fill:#ab2b28,color:#ffffff,stroke:#ab2b28
  class me this

Dependencies

Run dependencies 10

No port depends on this one.

Configuration

No options to configure.

Service scripts: none

Message after installing

To support vim on nvim as pager, cppman needs fdescfs(5)
to be mounted on /dev/fd.

If /dev/fd is not already mounted:

	mount -t fdescfs fdesc /dev/fd

To make it permanent, add the following line to /etc/fstab:

	fdesc	/dev/fd		fdescfs		rw	0	0