man - format and display the on-line manual pages
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Using symbolic links and git to manage build versions
In general I follow the following workflow when I build any program (e.g. emacs, tmux, etc.)
/home/opt/[name of the program]/builds/[version]/
bin
lib
share
For example for a program like tmux I ...
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man path and 'man foo' vs. 'man -k foo'
I have a set of man pages in a non-standard location; however, the location is on my MANPATH (and I verified this with man --path). When I do
man fst-infl
(where fst-infl has a man page in this ...
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Install man pages in directory with update-alternatives
Using update-alternatives(8) on a Debian system it is possible to add man pages as slaves under some master alternative.
For example, the following command installs an alternative man page tclsh.1 ...
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NetBSD: /etc/man.conf man search path does not work
I've added a new man page directory
/usr/local/share/man/man1b
which contains files like e.g.
troff.1b
In /etc/man.conf I added
_subdir ...some names... man1b
_default ...
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How do the various configuration files determine MANPATH on Darwin?
On Darwin (12.2.0, OS X 10.8.2, bash 3.2.48(1)) my MANPATH appears to be determined by my PATH rather than by the various configuration files associated with man and the man path, /etc/manpaths, ...
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[Solved]man crashes on OS X after upgrading bash and its manpages
Bash on OS X is always so old that I finally decided to compile a never(4.3.18) one and simply override and replace the old one.
Here are the configure flags I used:
./configure --prefix=/ ...
