[PLUG] St00pid n00bie command line question

Jason R. Martin nsxfreddy at gmail.com
Mon Feb 27 16:29:41 UTC 2006


On 2/27/06, Richard C. Steffens <rsteff at comcast.net> wrote:
> Michael Rasmussen wrote:
>
> > Two tips for reading man pages:
> >
> > Skim - just skim through the thing with an intent of looking for stuff that's
> > interesting.  Ignore everything that's of no interest.  Just look for stuff
> > that may be useful someday so you can remember it's in the man page when you
> > need it.
> >
> > The / key - you can search through the man page by using the / key and then
> > the n (for next) to find a word of interest.
>
> I'm still in the category of folk for whom man pages make sense only
> part of the time, but I'm getting better. One of my gripes about man
> pages was not being able to search them. I suspect this would be second
> nature to died in the wool command line users, but for those of us who
> aren't forced to use it, and get most of what we want done with GUI
> tools, searching by using / is one of those things that is easy to
> forget about -- well, for me it was, anyway.
>
> So, thanks for reminding me about / and how it can be used in more than
> just vi.

The perhaps it would help you to learn that you can search the current
page in Firefox using the same key.  Unfortunately, find-next is
CTRL-G instead of 'n', but at least you can still use the same key for
the initial search.

Jason



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