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diff --git a/x11/tkman/DESCR b/x11/tkman/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..4f5192f5d2a --- /dev/null +++ b/x11/tkman/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +A manual page reader, TkMan offers two major advantages over xman: +hypertext links to other man pages (click on a word in the text which +corresponds to a man page, and you jump there), and better navigation +within long man pages with searches (both incremental and regular +expression) and jumps to section headers. TkMan also offers some +convenience features, like a user-configurable list of commonly used man +pages, a one-click printout, and integration of `whatis' and `apropos'. +Further, one may highlight, as if with a yellow marker, arbitrary passages +of text in man pages and subsequently jump directly to these passages by +selecting an identifying excerpt from a pulldown menu. Finally, TkMan +gives one control over the directory-to-menu volume mapping of man pages +with a capability similar to but superior to xman's mandesc in that rather +than forcing all who share a man directory to follow a single organization, +TkMan gives control to the individual. In fact, one may decide he has no +use for a large set of man pages--say for instance the programmer routines +in volumes 2, 3, 4, 8--and eliminate them from his personal database. |