This seems pretty cool & also gem-worthy
I used to do this (although I used col -bx, since my tab spacing in
BBEdit is normally set to 2 characters), but eventually switched to
using Bwana from Safari (since I have Safari open about as often as
BBEdit) and that way the links all work (eg man:col links to
man:nroff and others).
Enjoy,
Peter.
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From: Chris Pepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: March 10, 2006 4:24:24 PM CST
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: ManOpen Opens Man Pages
Reply-To: TidBITS Talk <[email protected]>
First, thanks John W. Baxter & Matt Neuberg for suggesting
"col -b" to clean up manual pages for piping. I just wrote a bash
function to save some tying and make things a bit cleaner. I use the
following in my profile (it should normally go in ~/.profile or
~/.bashrc):
function manb () { man $* | col -b | bbedit --clean --view-top
--pipe-title $*; }
So now I can "manb ssh" or "manb scp sftp" and get a nice
BBEdit window with the clean content. I decided it wasn't worth
breaking multiple commands into separate windows, but that could be
added easily enough with a loop, if desired.
Chris
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