On Thu, 30 May 2019 12:06:09 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
Your underlying question seems to be how to view man pages nicely.
Yes, very much so.
Try using yelp (the Gnome help browser). You can call it from the command line: yelp man:crontab yelp 'man:crontab(5)'
I did those, and they were glorious! You, SIR!, are a gentleman and a scholar and a judge of fine software. I'm deeply in your debt.
Or you start it (it's called "Help" in the graphical interface), press CTRL-L, then enter "man:crontab" or "man:crontab(5)" in the box.
Here I hit a snag small. I tried it on a Mate terminal, and on a workspace with no app running (unless panels are called apps), but neither was right, and I didn't know what graphical interface you meant. Then I thought to go through the whole main menu -- and found help under System that I had never noticed was there. Again I'm deep in your debt.