BSD Ports

misc/tkman 2.2p3 OpenBSD

Tcl/Tk-based manual browser

System
OpenBSD
Repository
OpenBSD ports
Maintainer
Stuart Cassoff <[email protected]>
Last update
Commit
3acd8feef8
Categories
misc, x11/tk, lang/tcl

Description

A manual page reader, TkMan offers two major advantages over xman: hypertext links to other man pages (click on a word in the text which corresponds to a man page, and you jump there), and better navigation within long man pages with searches (both incremental and regular expression) and jumps to section headers. TkMan also offers some convenience features, like a user-configurable list of commonly used man pages, a one-click printout, and integration of `whatis' and `apropos'. Further, one may highlight, as if with a yellow marker, arbitrary passages of text in man pages and subsequently jump directly to these passages by selecting an identifying excerpt from a pulldown menu. Finally, TkMan gives one control over the directory-to-menu volume mapping of man pages with a capability similar to but superior to xman's mandesc in that rather than forcing all who share a man directory to follow a single organization, TkMan gives control to the individual. In fact, one may decide he has no use for a large set of man pages--say for instance the programmer routines in volumes 2, 3, 4, 8--and eliminate them from his personal database.

Install

Binary package:

pkg_add tkman

From the ports tree:

cd /usr/ports/misc/tkman && make install

Dependencies

Run dependencies 3

No port depends on this one.

Commit history 1

DateCommitCreditsLog message
3acd8feef8 stu Better fix for screen width measurement problem. MODTK_VERSION=8.6