Date: Mon, 15 May 2017 11:50:42 +0530 From: Abhinav Upadhyay <er.abhinav.upadhyay@gmail.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Announcing man-k.org Message-ID: <CAHwRYJm4U0%2BuKe1GxUyBXwZP8apTYRb=Zz04naipWP_rwEPcoQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20170513152446.1A7677A2AF@mollari.NetBSD.org> References: <20170513152446.1A7677A2AF@mollari.NetBSD.org>
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On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 8:54 PM, Abhinav Upadhyay <abhinav@netbsd.org> wrote: > Hi, > > My name is Abhinav Upadhyay, I am a NetBSD user and developer. I would like to > introduce http://man-k.org - a web interface to NetBSD's apropos(1). It is a > full text search tool for man pages, providing support for searching FreeBSD, > NetBSD, OpenBSD, Linux and Posix man pages. > > Apart from full text search, the man pages have syntax highlighting (at least > the mdoc(7) man pages have, see [1] for example). Also, the header includes in > the man pages are hyperlinked to OpenGrok for looking up the header files > (see [2] for an example). > > I have talked about it briefly at last year's EuroBSDCon and AsiaBSDCon in the > context of applying machine learning to improve ranking in NetBSD's apropos(1). > But it only had support for searching NetBSD man pages back then. > > I would like to invite you all to use it and let me know of any feedback or > suggestions you might have to improve it. :-) > > [1]:http://man-k.org/man/FreeBSD-12.0-CURRENT/2/kevent > [2]:http://man-k.org/man/FreeBSD-12.0-CURRENT/3/strtonum > While here, I would also like to note http://man-k.org/whatis - Which allows to do whatis(1) kind of queries across platforms. So, if you wanted to see which of the operating system releases ship with a given function, utility, or driver, you could use this. However, it is simply a whatis(1) query, so it only understands proper man page names. :-) The idea was suggested by Robert Elz (kre) on the NetBSD mailing list. - Abhinav
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