qman is a modern man page viewer

qman is a modern, full-featured manual page viewer featuring hyperlinks, web browser like navigation, a table of contents for each page, incremental search, on-line help, and more.

It also strives to be fast and tiny, so that it can be used everywhere. For this reason, it’s been written in plain C and has only minimal dependencies.

This is free and open source software.

Features include:

• Index page that displays all manual pages available on the system, sorted alphabetically and organised by section.
• Pages for apropos and whatis results.
• Hyperlinks to other manual pages.
• Hyperlinks for URLs and email addresses (handled with xdg-open by default).
• In-page hyperlinks.
• A table of contents for each manual page.
• Incremental search for manual pages.
• Incremental free page text search
• Command-line options similar to those of man (most i.mportantly, -k and -f).
• Keyboard mappings similar to those of less.
• Mouse support.
• Navigation history.
• On-line help
• Fully configurable using an INI-style config file.
• Manual page.

Website: github.com/plp13/qman
Support:
Developer: Pantelis Panayiotou
License: BSD 2-Clause “Simplified” License

qman is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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