On Thu, 30 May 2019 12:06:09 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
Your underlying question seems to be how to view man pages nicely.
Yes, very much so.
Try
using yelp (the Gnome help browser). You can call it from the command
line:
yelp man:crontab
yelp 'man:crontab(5)'
I did those, and they were glorious! You, SIR!, are a gentleman
and a scholar and a judge of fine software. I'm deeply in your debt.
Or you start it (it's called "Help" in the graphical
interface), press
CTRL-L, then enter "man:crontab" or "man:crontab(5)" in the box.
Here I hit a snag small. I tried it on a Mate terminal, and on a
workspace with no app running (unless panels are called apps), but
neither was right, and I didn't know what graphical interface you meant.
Then I thought to go through the whole main menu -- and found help under
System that I had never noticed was there. Again I'm deep in your debt.
--
Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Power User
Remember I know little (precious little!) of where up is.