0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agoMan pages badsh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square97fedilinkarrow-up1427arrow-down186
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minus-squareiopq@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 months agoWhen you use the man pages from the terminal it’s not so easy to skip to them
minus-squareAncientMariner@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 months agoI think it’s f to go forward one page, b for back. Down arrow goes down a line etc.
minus-squareTimeNaan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 months agoYeah it is. Just press pgdown and pgup or home and end for faster scrolling.
minus-squaresimpleslipeagle@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-27 months agoSounds like you need to spend some time in man more man find /thing you want to find Should be enough to skip right to what you want.
minus-squareiopq@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 months agoOr I just use this instead http://bropages.org/examples/77
minus-squaresimpleslipeagle@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months agoSeems like a lot of extra faffing about if you’re already in a terminal with your hands on the keyboard to avoid learning how to use a tool explicitly built for that use case. But sure. You do you boo.
minus-squareiopq@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 months agoIt’s also a terminal application, but that one in particular is deprecated This one isn’t https://tldr.inbrowser.app/pages/common/find tldr is in my distro’s repos so it’s easy enough to install
When you use the man pages from the terminal it’s not so easy to skip to them
I think it’s f to go forward one page, b for back. Down arrow goes down a line etc.
Yeah it is. Just press pgdown and pgup or home and end for faster scrolling.
Sounds like you need to spend some time in
man moreman find /thing you want to findShould be enough to skip right to what you want.
Or I just use this instead
http://bropages.org/examples/77
Seems like a lot of extra faffing about if you’re already in a terminal with your hands on the keyboard to avoid learning how to use a tool explicitly built for that use case.
But sure. You do you boo.
It’s also a terminal application, but that one in particular is deprecated
This one isn’t
https://tldr.inbrowser.app/pages/common/find
tldr is in my distro’s repos so it’s easy enough to install