#34 Libraries Documentation

[snez]

Hello,

I just started using BVRDE yesterday for a school assignment and I just wet my pants when I saw how useful it can be. Thanks to all the guys that have worked on it so far!

My feature request is about making remote man pages requests. For example, when I have the cursor somewhere on the printf keyword and I press F1, a popup should appear with information like this

$ man -k printf
asprintf (3) - print to allocated string
dprintf (3) - print to a file descriptor
fprintf (3) - formatted output conversion
fprintf (3posix) - print formatted output
fwprintf (3) - formatted wide character output conversion
fwprintf (3posix) - print formatted wide-character output
kdeprintfax (1) - a interface to fax-packages
printf (1) - format and print data
printf (1posix) - write formatted output
printf (3) - formatted output conversion
printf (3posix) - print formatted output
snprintf (3) - formatted output conversion
snprintf (3posix) - print formatted output
sprintf (3) - formatted output conversion
sprintf (3posix) - print formatted output
swprintf (3) - formatted wide character output conversion
swprintf (3posix) - print formatted wide-character output
vasprintf (3) - print to allocated string
vdprintf (3) - print to a file descriptor
vfprintf (3) - formatted output conversion
vfprintf (3posix) - format output of a stdarg argument list
vfwprintf (3) - formatted wide character output conversion
vfwprintf (3posix) - wide-character formatted output of a stdarg argument list
vprintf (3) - formatted output conversion
vprintf (3posix) - format output of a stdarg argument list
vsnprintf (3) - formatted output conversion
vsnprintf (3posix) - format output of a stdarg argument list
vsprintf (3) - formatted output conversion
vsprintf (3posix) - format output of a stdarg argument list
vswprintf (3) - formatted wide character output conversion
vswprintf (3posix) - wide-character formatted output of a stdarg argument list
vwprintf (3) - formatted wide character output conversion
vwprintf (3posix) - wide-character formatted output of a stdarg argument list
wprintf (3) - formatted wide character output conversion
wprintf (3posix) - print formatted wide-character output

And maybe the (2) and (3) manpages could be sorted to appear first, since they are for development, and the keywords that match exactly "printf" should be highlighted.

Then, you should be able to click on any of them an a man page request would be made remotely and you could get the output in BVRDE.

That would be an awesome feature, I hope you like the idea of it.

Cheers,
Christos Constantinou

[Bjarke Viksøe]

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Hi,

Thanks for the suggestion. You probably already know that pressing F1 on "printf" will open a man info-page with the printf() documentation (provided you have "man" and "man2html" utilites on the remote server). Use the << and >> buttons to scroll through multiple keyword entries.

Still, having access to the man-generated index/search also would be a nice feature.

regards
bjarke