Viewing man Pages on Ventura
Ventura’s Preview app lost the ability to render postscript or ps files. This breaks the previous, popular shell alias to open a man page in Preview.
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Add this function to your shell configuration file: (bash, zsh)
preman() { mandoc -T pdf "$(/usr/bin/man -w $@)" | open -fa Preview }[…]
I prefer opening the ‘yellow’ man pages in Terminal app. You can do so by entering a command in the Help menu, or by using the
x-man-pageURL scheme. In these yellow terminal windows, you can scroll and search in the text with command-F. You can also do a secondary click (right/ctrl/two-finger click) on any word and it will offer to open that man page in the context menu.
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> I prefer opening the ‘yellow’ man pages in Terminal app. You can do so by entering a command in the Help menu, or by using the x-man-page URL scheme. In these yellow terminal windows, you can scroll and search in the text with command-F. You can also do a secondary click (right/ctrl/two-finger click) on any word and it will offer to open that man page in the context menu.
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How did I live all these years with Terminal.app not knowing this!
Oh, x-man-page is nice and I did not know about the Help search.
I’ve just replaced my html renderer with this:
xman() {
open x-man-page://"${@}"
}
alias man=‘xman'
Now man opens the yellow page. Thanks!
