Curiosity
Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2019 10:51 am
We open system folders with Firefox to read the contents.
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Re: Curiosity
Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2019 11:39 am
Your question..?
Re: Curiosity
Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2019 11:53 am
I have no questions to ask only to those who visit the forum.
Re: Curiosity
Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2019 3:10 pm
Thanks, sg-1. It is a good tip, an efficient way for curious learners to browse the filesystem.
Re: Curiosity
Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2019 7:56 pm
Another browser trick is to open man pages in them instead of the terminal, since the formatting is much nicer, with
man:packagename
man:packagename
Re: Curiosity
Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2019 3:11 pm
I'm interested in this, but it doesn't work for me. I see the format is similar to, "about:config", or "about:preferences", but for example, "man:ls" brings up a "Select Application" dialog box.
Re: Curiosity
Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2019 3:25 pm
I don't have a graphical file manager installed so FF can be useful for quick browsing of the filesystem tree (although I prefer ranger).
It used to work for me in Debian stretch but it seems to be broken in buster 
How about
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man -Hfirefox lsRe: Curiosity
Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2019 3:47 pm
This is what I get:
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$ man -Hfirefox ls
man: command exited with status 3: /usr/lib/man-db/zsoelim | /usr/lib/man-db/manconv -f UTF-8:ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8//IGNORE | preconv -e UTF-8 | tbl | groff -mandoc -ThtmlRe: Curiosity
Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2019 3:57 pm
So why the post?
Re: Curiosity
Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2019 4:09 pm
Hello jj1j1,
Did you install groff?
many greetings gosia
Did you install groff?
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sudo apt install groffRe: Curiosity
Posted: Mon Jun 03, 2019 5:33 am
I discovered this way to view the file system folders in the browser informing those interested or curious to use this method. Other criticisms? I'm available.
Re: Curiosity
Posted: Mon Jun 03, 2019 5:52 am
And without accidentally doing any damage, too, as there's no way to edit any files from within a web browser.skidoo wrote: Sat Jun 01, 2019 3:10 pm Thanks, sg-1. It is a good tip, an efficient way for curious learners to browse the filesystem.
That's pretty cool. Thanks for the tip, sg-1.
Re: Curiosity
Posted: Mon Jun 03, 2019 2:32 pm
"Did you install groff?"
Do you mean as an alternative to reading man pages in Firefox? Groff is interesting, though in my case, examples on usage would be helpful. I cant get much from the man pages...OK I think I understand your question. Yes I did install Groff. After reading man man pages I see this:
Do you mean as an alternative to reading man pages in Firefox? Groff is interesting, though in my case, examples on usage would be helpful. I cant get much from the man pages...OK I think I understand your question. Yes I did install Groff. After reading man man pages I see this:
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-H[browser], --html[=browser]
This option will cause groff to produce HTML output, and will display that output
in a web browser. The choice of browser is determined by the optional browser
argument if one is provided, by the $BROWSER environment variable, or by a compile-
time default if that is unset (usually lynx). This option implies -t, and will
only work with GNU troff.