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authorMarkus Hiereth <post@hiereth.de>2016-08-08 11:18:45 +0000
committerTatsuya Kinoshita <tats@debian.org>2016-08-08 11:18:45 +0000
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parentUpdate manpage for w3m in English and German (diff)
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Update manpage for w3mman in English and German
Origin: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=772341#80
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-.TH W3MMAN 1 "Nov 23, 2014"
+.TH W3MMAN 1 "2016-07-13"
.\" Please adjust this date whenever revising the manpage.
.\"
.\" Some roff macros, for reference:
@@ -14,33 +14,48 @@
.SH NAME
w3mman \- an interface to the on-line reference manuals via w3m(1)
.SH SYNOPSIS
+.\" mh 2016-07-04: "page" is an optional argument.
+.\" Started without it, w3mman displays a form that allows selection
+.\" of a manual page according to section, name and keyword.
+.\" Therefore square brackets introduced
.B w3mman
-.RI "[\-M " path ] " " [ section ] " page"
+[
+.BI \-M " path"
+] [
+.I section
+] [
+.I page
+]
.br
.B w3mman
-.RI "[\-M " path "] \-k " keyword
+[
+.BI \-M " path"
+]
+.BI \-k " keyword"
.br
.B w3mman
-.RI \-l " file
+.BI \-l " file"
+.br
.SH DESCRIPTION
+.\" mh 2016-07-04 text edited. This section shall deliver
+.\" more information than section NAME
.B w3mman
-is a pager for manual pages, using
-.BR w3m (1).
+is a Perl script that uses
+.BR w3m (1)
+to serve as a pager for on-line reference manuals.
.SH OPTIONS
A summary of options is included below.
.TP
.BI \-M " path"
-Specify
+Specify
.I path
-as MANPATH.
+as alternative MANPATH to use.
.TP
.BI \-k " keyword"
-Specify
-.I keyword.
+Specify \fIkeyword\fP.
.TP
.BI \-l " file"
-Specify a
-.I file.
+Specify a \fIfile\fP.
.SH ENVIRONMENT
Two variables are available for debugging.
.TP