man page editor 1

[sedawk]

Hi,

I have a simple question on Unix/Linux man page: what editor is it used? I would also like to know how to do interactive search after open a man page. For example, to find the lines containging word "find" in man page of find.

Thanks in advance.

 

[stefanwagner]

To find find use /find.

Mostly the manpages are viewed with less, but not edited.
The manpages are created with an editor but in a different language and then compiled into the manpage format.
I'm sorry for not remembering more details.

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[stefanwagner]

PS: after finding find, you can hit 'n' for the next entry.
To find out about more commands try man man or hit 'h' like help while viewing a manpage.

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[AdaHacker]

As I recall, man pages are actually troff formatted text. Some people write the troff by hand, others write the pages in another format (e.g. XML) and then convert to troff and other formats. If you want an actual man page editor, there is a program called ManEdit that provides a GTK+-based GUI for writing man pages. I've never really done much with it, but it's the only such program I know of.

And just FYI, if you don't like viewing man pages from the command prompt, KDE offers a man:/ KIOslave that lets you view man pages as web pages in Konqueror. You can try it out by entering man:/programname in the Konqueror address bar.