On Fri, 19 Jan 2024, Hal Kierstead wrote:
I often find myself looking through several manuals trying to find
information. It would be much better if I could make a single search of
all manuals. Maybe there is a way and I just do not know it.
Hal,
While it's a kludge, you could compile each manual to a PDF, put them in a
directory, say /LyX/manuals/, then use pdfgrep to search them:
PDFGREP(1) Pdfgrep Manual
PDFGREP(1)
NAME
pdfgrep - search PDF files for a regular expression
SYNOPSIS
pdfgrep [OPTION...] PATTERN [FILE...]
pdfgrep [OPTION...] [-e PATTERN | -f FILE] [FILE...]
DESCRIPTION
Search for PATTERN in each PDF FILE and print matching lines. By
default, PATTERN
is an extended regular expression.
pdfgrep tries to be mostly compatible with GNU grep with some
PDF-specific
distinctions and additional options. Most notably, -n prints page
instead of line
numbers.
A very useful tool.
Regards,
Rich
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