NEW URL:
http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/tpl/cgi ... nux&db=man
This might be better, a matter of taste regarding format. Very inclusive, unlike die.net there are no adds
MUCH SIMPLER INSTRUCTIONS:
see next few posts in thread.
Regular opera users may know this already, though I have to admit it took me a little while to find out it was available.
This is one of the things that makes me install opera right away when I rebuild puppy, the ability to get to custom searches with all of two keystrokes + search term.
After setting it up, which takes moments, just do the following to search man pages:
- (lowercase L) which moves your cursor to the URL window
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control-l
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man [command] <enter>
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man rm <enter>
To set this up go to ***edit - easier way, skip to my next post for instructions ***
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tools: preferences
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Search tab.
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New
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Details
enter a
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name
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man
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http://www.die.net/search/search.cgi?words=%s
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http://
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https://
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%s
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http://www.die.net/search/search.cgi?words=rm
You can do this with any site by looking at the url and seeing what to replace. Note, however, that some sites don't like spaces,
Wikipedia is one, just replace space with _ as you enter the search term if you set it up.
I changed d to open download.com and use w for
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search/%s
w puppy_linux
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w puppy linux
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w puppy+linux
The default searches of this sort in opera all have & placed randomlyin the name. It is not displayed, and I have no idea why it is there (anyone know?) but it works fine without it as well.
Try other sources of man pages if you like. I've set up a linux man pages swicki but there is a bug at the moment preventing me from configuring it so that it works better than the above single-site search, but when they fix it (and they will because it is a significant bug) I'll be pointing man that instead of the die.net as in the example.
One more note: Puppy uses busybox, a multi-function utility that takes the place of a large number of normal linux commands. If you don't know this yet it is because links have been set up so that when you call a function busybox replaces it actually calls busybox. It is transparent to the user except that busybox has been stripped of some of the less used options for some commands, meaning you might not be able to use every option for a command you find online. It is also the primary reason I did this, since currently when you type man rm in puppy you get the busybox man page and have to scroll to rm (or whichever command you are trying to learn about. That alone isn't a big deal, but the busybox man page only includes the Options section of the relevant man page, and often I need more than that.
hmm, maybe I'll try configuring man to open and call this instead when called from the command line, though when not already running opera takes a while to open on my computer (~10 seconds), so I'll add it as oman instead of replacing man.
I hope someone will find this useful. If you know of a better way to do it, or a better online man page collection, please let me know.
Thanks,
Fitzhugh