[shikaan]

I have played with that idea for a while until I realized I was creating a poor man's web browser in the terminal.

At that point I started wondering if converting my man folder to HTML and using lynx[1] wasn't a better idea.

I ended up using vanilla man again.

Are there better/fancier manpage readers out there that can change my mind?

[1]: https://lynx.invisible-island.net/current/

[chriswarbo]

I tend to read man pages in Emacs, which comes with a 'man' command (invoking that executable) and a 'woman' command (an alternative implemented entirely within Emacs), which both implement a basic amount of hyperlinking in their display. For example, I just tried it with the 'rg' manual (first suggestion when I ran `man`), which says:

> Like other tools such as ls, ripgrep will alter its output

That `ls` is marked-up, so pressing RET on it will open the manual for the `ls` command; which includes:

> FORMAT is interpreted like in date(1).

Again, that `date` is marked up, so pressing RET on it `date` will open the manual for the `date` command; etc.

It's obviously just going on heuristics though; e.g. the `ls` manual has marked-up the `--sort` option, and if I hit RET on that it takes me to the manual for the `sort` command ;-)

[zvr]

Back in the day, there was Tkman, a GUI manpage reader written in Tcl/Tk. It actually used rman (for Rosetta man) that transformed the roff man sources to a more expressive format.