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coolman-3.17.17 - Man page reader for the X Window System based on the
Coolwidget library.
USAGEcoolman [options] [-c <man-command>] [<man-page>]
DESCRIPTION
This man page reader just views the output of the man system command,
with a nice point and click, drag and drop, GUI.
OPTIONS-d, -display <display>
The X server and display you would like to display to.
-f, -fn, -font <font-name>
The font you would like to use.
-dnd-old
Use dnd version 0 instead of version 1. Many apps that support
Dnd may only support the older version. Use this option to force
compatability.
-c, -cmd, --command <man-command>
This specifies the shell command to use to run man. The %m is
replaced with the name of the man page. The default is man -a
%m, where -a specifies all man pages: the -a option may not be
supported on some systems. Note that you can use coolman 'cat
%m' <file-name> to use coolman to just view a regular file.
-h, -H, -?, --help
Print out commandline options summary.
-V, -v, --version
Print out version number.
USAGE
If Coolman is envoked without arguments, it requests a man page on
startup. Typical usage of Coolman would be to open one man page and
then double click on key words or words in the SEE ALSO sections of man
pages. This will cause Coolman to run man with the word that was dou‐
ble-clicked on. This will create a list of opened man pages, which can
be browsed with the Previous and Next buttons. You can search through
the text by pressing F7 and entering your search string - searching
begins from the second line in the window, and is transparent to nroff
formatting. To insert selected text from other applications into an
input line, use Shift-Insert. You can also drag text from the man page
by first highlighting the text with the mouse, and then dragging from
within the highlighted text. Note that Drag and drop may not work if
your Dnd version is incompatible. Envoke Coolman with -dnd-old to force
compatability.
Finally, function key usage is analogous to Cooledit, eg F10 exits.
COLORS
You can change the colors of coolman from cooledit's configuration
file: ~/cedit/.cooledit.ini. The lines of interest would look like
this by default:
[Options]
option_text_fg_normal = 0
option_text_fg_bold = 17
option_text_fg_italic = 16
option_text_bg_normal = 22
option_text_bg_marked = 25
option_text_bg_highlighted = 12
Cooledit creates this file when it exits, but you can create a file
that looks just like this if you don't have cooledit. The numbers rep‐
resent a 3x3x3 RGB matrix, eg. black is 0, white is 26 and, say, red is
18.
LICENSE
This program is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public
License as published by the Free Software Foundation. See the file
COPYING in the source distribution for details on the License and the
lack of warranty. Alternatively see the 'About' menu of the Cooledit
program.
AVAILABILITY
The latest public release of this program can be found at sun‐
site.unc.edu in the directory /pub/Linux/Incoming, or
/pub/Linux/apps/editors/X. The latest development version can be found
at lava.obsidian.co.za , in the directory /pub/unix/cooledit , all by
anonymous ftp. Coolman is packed with the Cooledit distribution.
SEE ALSOscanf(3), cooledit(1), man(1), smalledit(1).
AUTHORS
Paul Sheer (psheer /AT/ icon.co.za)
4 April 2005 coolman(1)
