From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (qmail 27979 invoked from network); 17 Dec 1998 20:28:24 -0000 Received: from mail.redhat.com (199.183.24.239) by lists.redhat.com with SMTP; 17 Dec 1998 20:28:24 -0000 Received: from europe.std.com (europe.std.com [199.172.62.20]) by mail.redhat.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA18619 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 15:18:23 -0500 Received: from world.std.com by europe.std.com (8.7.6/BZS-8-1.0) id PAA20279; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 15:18:22 -0500 (EST) Received: by world.std.com (TheWorld/Spike-2.0) id AA07799; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 15:18:22 -0500 Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 15:18:22 -0500 From: lark@world.std.com (Lar Kaufman) Message-Id: <199812172018.AA07799@world.std.com> To: blinux-list@redhat.com Subject: More on "man" and editors List-Id: For those on the list who are bored with this, I apologize, but hopefully this is useful to some... Following is a sample output from my Internet host system's manpage set (the host is a Silicon Graphics Indigo running Irix, a System V Unix enriched with BSD utilities--and a lot of freeware and shareware, in this case). I ran the command "man -k editor" to get this output... - - - a.out (4) - assembler and link editor output abild (1) - ABI link editor bitmap, bmtoa, atobm (1)- bitmap editor and converter utilities for the X Window System ed, red (1) - text editor edit (1) - text editor (variant of ex for casual users) editres (1) - a dynamic resource editor for X Toolkit applications eep v1.6 (1) -- Easy Editor Program for .newsrc elvis, ex, vi, view, input (1)- The editor ex (1) - text editor ex, vi, view (1) - text editors ieditor (1) - a simple internationalized mouse-based text editor imged (1) - small image editor joe (1) - Joe's Own Editor joe (1) - Joe's Own Editor jot, jotxgizmo (1) - mouse-based text editor jove (1) - an interactive display-oriented text editor ld (1) - link editor pico (1) - simple text editor in the style of the Pine Composer prompter (1) - prompting editor front-end for MH SceneViewer (1) - 3d editor and viewer for Inventor scenes sed (1) - stream editor te (1) - TECO text editor TEACHJOVE (1) - learn how to use the JOVE editor vi, view, vedit (1) - screen-oriented (visual) display editors based on ex vim (1) - Vi IMproved, a programmers text editor webmagic (1) - WYSIWYG HTML editor xedit (1) - simple text editor for X zshzle (1) - zsh command line editor - - - Note that if I had looked for "ex" I would have picked up a huge amount of listings including things like "hex" and "text" and so on. So if looking for the "ex" editor I would have entered 'man -k " ex "' (the double-quotes are literal here, making the search look for ex string.) If the whatis database is not built on the system, you won't find anything, of course. Next couple of messages are manpages for vi, vile, elvis, etc. which you should ignore if you have no interest in them. But you might be interested in the powers of unix filtering... I created the output for elvis, for example, by entering "man elvis | col -b > elvis.out". By piping the manpage through the "col" command with the "-b" flag, I stripped the backspaced/overwritten characters in the file that would have been understood by an original unix pager, but not by many modern email browsers.... -lar "This ain't no party, this ain't no disco, this ain't no fooling around. No time for dancing or lovey-dovey, I ain't got time for that now. I sent a message through the receiver, hope to get an answer someday. Why stay in college? Why go to night school? Thought I'd be different this time." -D. Byrne