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Re: What tool to edit man pages?


From: "Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 09:42:50 +0100

On 24.12.2004, at 03:08, Jonathon McKitrick wrote:
: > If I'd like to clean up some man pages, what is the tool to use? They are
: > in a special format, right?
: There is no 'special' tool for which I know of. I would just use
: your favourite text editor. There is much work to do on the manpages,
: such as removing whitespace etc.
Aren't they in troff/nroff/groff format or something like that?

The format *BSD have their man pages in is called "mdoc" iirc. mdoc(7) gives you a good overview about what and how. Using an editor with syntax hilighting helps :)


cheers
  simon

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