I was asking myself about man/info pages.

[aheadofthekrauts@social.tchncs.de]

I was asking myself about man/info pages. How do you view help pages on desktop? Is everyone using a gui or do you stick to terminal?

Also nice to comment: Do you use a replacement for the stock tool?

#linux #mac

[truls46@mastodon.social]

@aheadofthekrauts Mostly "command --help".

If that isn't enough I use "man command".

If that output requires (a lot of ) scrolling, I view the man page using my browser ("man -Hfirefox command").

[ragectl@hachyderm.io]

@aheadofthekrauts tldr or tealder also works nicely in a terminal

[aheadofthekrauts@social.tchncs.de]

@truls46 Good point. I haven't thought about the short help page at all.

Some tools even come with a very long help that you can deepdive in, e.g. 'dnf --help' then 'dnf --help subcommand'.

[aheadofthekrauts@social.tchncs.de]

@ragectl I've read about tldr before. It's probably time to take a look myself.

[jrepin@mstdn.io]

@aheadofthekrauts I mostly use the GUI to read #info and #man pages. In #KDE Plasma you can press Alt+Space to open Krunner and then enter "#page" to open the man page in KDE Help Center, or "##page" to open the info page

[tusharhero@mathstodon.xyz]

@aheadofthekrauts I use GNU Emacs as a GUI program to read Info manuals and manpages.

#emacs

[mdione@en.osm.town]

@aheadofthekrauts websites. There are several that present them with a decent table of content, useful for big pages like bash's. One of them is https://manpages.ubuntu.com/

[aheadofthekrauts@social.tchncs.de]

@JRepin That's something I seriously miss from GNOME.

[aheadofthekrauts@social.tchncs.de]

@tusharhero Is this because you stay in emacs most of the time?

[einsiedlerspiel@todon.nl]

@aheadofthekrauts man pages in the terminal most of the time info pages always in emacs. the terminal info reader is a pain

[anderslund@expressional.social]

@JRepin @aheadofthekrauts Terminal, mostly because I forget how easy it is to view them in GUI (in plasma)

[tusharhero@mathstodon.xyz]

@aheadofthekrauts Elizaesque question.

Yes.

[tusharhero@mathstodon.xyz]

@aheadofthekrauts BTW info can also read manpages.

[ecadre@mastodon.social]

@tusharhero @aheadofthekrauts I see... Well, why do you say this is so?

[guyjantic@infosec.exchange]

@aheadofthekrauts Much less techy than some people, here. I usually try command --help or man command (or both), but if the output is long and difficult to parse (for me this applies to an awful lot of commands; last night it was tar, trying to remember which options I needed) I just go to an online search where I usually find an answer on stackoverflow or something, tailored to my situation, faster than I would have found it by doing a (hopefully self-terminating) search through the man page and cross-referencing the options there with other information (which is how man pages are often set up, and is required for many situations I need help with).