[CLUE-Talk] Viewing man pages with vi or Emacs

[Todd A. Gibson]

On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 12:02:59AM -0700, John H Swaby wrote:
> Tonight at the meeting I mentioned two handy ways of viewing
> man pages using either vi or Emacs.
> 

I missed the first part of your presentation that included
dumping a manpage into a text editor.  Had this method been
mentioned?  A simple script that you run instead of man:

#!/bin/bash
man $* | col -b >/tmp/$$.man
vi /tmp/$$.man
rm /tmp/$$.man