Vim includes a man page viewer, :Man, in its runtime files. Put this line in your vimrc: runtime! ftplugin/man.vim Now you can read syntax-highlighted man pages inside Vim by running :Man. For example: :Man 3 printf Even better, you can just place your cursor on a word in the buffer and press <Leader>K (\K) to … Read more
There is no formal definition of a manpage anywhere, not even in the POSIX standard. The man(1) manpage in your example is pretty typical: you write out the various ways a program can be used (often just one) with [] denoting optional, bold (or typewriter font with the mdoc macros) denoting literal command line input … Read more
The other answers are great. But I thought I (the OP) ought to share what I do these days (a year or two after the question). I use Sphinx and its Markdown extension. Do the following: TL;DR: See Gist snippet. Sphinx-markdown-builder You need sphinx-markdown-builder python module. pip install sphinx sphinx-markdown-builder; Run Sphinx Not the autodoc, … Read more
HELP is the equivalent Windows command for man. For instance: C:\> HELP For more information on a specific command, type HELP command-name ASSOC Displays or modifies file extension associations. ATTRIB Displays or changes file attributes. BREAK Sets or clears extended CTRL+C checking. BCDEDIT Sets properties in boot database to control boot loading. CACLS Displays or … Read more
man 2 bind You need a result from a different section of the manual! Man searches various sections for the information you want. As devnull lists below, the number indicates which section to search. Incidentally, bind is a system call, not a C library function. System calls (kernel calls) are in section 2 of the … Read more
Square Brackets [ ] The square brackets ( [ ] ) indicate that the enclosed element (parameter, value, or information) is optional. You can choose one or more items or no items. Do not type the square brackets themselves in the command line. Example: [global options], [source arguments], [destination arguments] Angle Brackets < > The … Read more
NAME putenv – change or add an environment variable SYNOPSIS #include <stdlib.h> int putenv(char *string); DESCRIPTION The putenv() function adds or changes the value of environment variables. The argument string is of the form name=value. If name does not already exist in the environment, then string is added to the environment. If name does exist, … Read more
You can try to read your file by doing man path_to_file as man will treat the given argument as a file if it finds a slash / in it. For instance man ./my_test will open the my_test file, while man my_test will look in the standard manual for the given command.
If you use the “normal” libstdc++ shipped with g++, its documentation is available online here. Most Linux distributions make it also available offline as a particular package; for Debian-derived distros, for example, it’s libstdc++-6-<version>-doc (e.g. on my Ubuntu machine I have libstdc++-6-4.4-doc installed). In general the documentation will be put somewhere like /usr/share/doc/libstdc++-6-4.4-doc. This about … Read more
It’s the section that the man page for the command is assigned to. These are split as General commands System calls C library functions Special files (usually devices, those found in /dev) and drivers File formats and conventions Games and screensavers Miscellanea System administration commands and daemons Original descriptions of each section can be seen … Read more