Software to edit man pages

Ernie Luzar luzar722 at gmail.com
Mon Sep 28 18:34:11 UTC 2015


Fehmi Noyan ISI via freebsd-doc wrote:
> Hi there,
> Is there any program that I can use to edit manual pages? Manual editing seems to be quite painful
> Thanks in advance
> 


gmanedit-0.4.2_6

misc/help2man

The reference for groff mdoc macros, which are the preferred way of
writing manpages for FreeBSD, is the groff_mdoc(7) manpage.


 From the questions archives
If you visit this URL:
<http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/writingscripts.html>
you will see links to various scripts.
One of them is for creating 'man' pages:
<http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/contributed-scripts.html#MANED>

You might want to investigate its usefulness for your needs.



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