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minus-squareiopq@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 months agoWhen you use the man pages from the terminal it’s not so easy to skip to them
minus-squareTimeNaan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 months agoYeah it is. Just press pgdown and pgup or home and end for faster scrolling.
minus-squaresimpleslipeagle@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-27 months agoSounds like you need to spend some time in man more man find /thing you want to find Should be enough to skip right to what you want.
minus-squareiopq@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 months agoOr I just use this instead http://bropages.org/examples/77
minus-squaresimpleslipeagle@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months agoSeems like a lot of extra faffing about if you’re already in a terminal with your hands on the keyboard to avoid learning how to use a tool explicitly built for that use case. But sure. You do you boo.
minus-squareiopq@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 months agoIt’s also a terminal application, but that one in particular is deprecated This one isn’t https://tldr.inbrowser.app/pages/common/find tldr is in my distro’s repos so it’s easy enough to install
minus-squareAncientMariner@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 months agoI think it’s f to go forward one page, b for back. Down arrow goes down a line etc.
When you use the man pages from the terminal it’s not so easy to skip to them
Yeah it is. Just press pgdown and pgup or home and end for faster scrolling.
Sounds like you need to spend some time in
man moreman find /thing you want to findShould be enough to skip right to what you want.
Or I just use this instead
http://bropages.org/examples/77
Seems like a lot of extra faffing about if you’re already in a terminal with your hands on the keyboard to avoid learning how to use a tool explicitly built for that use case.
But sure. You do you boo.
It’s also a terminal application, but that one in particular is deprecated
This one isn’t
https://tldr.inbrowser.app/pages/common/find
tldr is in my distro’s repos so it’s easy enough to install
I think it’s f to go forward one page, b for back. Down arrow goes down a line etc.