Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : qman
Version : 1.5.1
Upstream Contact: https://github.com/plp13
* URL : https://github.com/plp13/qman
* License : BSD-2
Programming Lang: C
Description : more modern man page viewer for our terminals
Unix manual pages are lovely. They are concise, well-written,
complete, and downright useful. However, the standard way of accessing
them from the command-line hasn't changed since the early days.
Qman aims to change that. It's a modern, full-featured manual page
viewer featuring hyperlinks, web browser like navigation, a table of
contents for each page, incremental search, on-line help, and more. It
also strives to be fast and tiny, so that it can be used
everywhere. For this reason, it's been written in plain C and has only
minimal dependencies.
Features
Index page that displays all manual pages available on the system, sorted
alphabetically and organised by section
Pages for apropos and whatis results
Hyperlinks to other manual pages
Hyperlinks for URLs and email addresses
Hyperlinks to files or directories in the local filesystem
In-page hyperlinks
A table of contents for each manual page
Incremental search for manual pages
Incremental free page text search
Command-line options similar to those of man (most importantly, -k and -f)
Keyboard mappings similar to those of less
Mouse support
Navigation history
On-line help
Fully configurable using INI-style config files
Manual page
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There are of course multiple manual pages viewers), but most of them
are essentially basic pagers (less(1)) or graphical programs.
This is an nice in-between.
