W3MMAN(1) General Commands Manual W3MMAN(1)

w3mman - an interface to the on-line reference manuals via w3m(1)

w3mman [ -M path ] [ [ section ] page ]
w3mman [ -M path ] [ section ] -k keyword
w3mman -l file

w3mman is a Perl script that uses w3m(1) to serve as a pager for on-line reference manuals.

A summary of options is included below.

Specify path as alternative MANPATH to use.
Specify keyword.
Specify a file.

Two variables are available for debugging.

If W3MMAN_W3M is set, its value is used instead of w3m.
If W3MMAN_MAN is set, its value is used instead of /usr/bin/man.

/usr/lib/w3m/cgi-bin/w3mman2html.cgi
manual page to HTML converter.

man(1), w3m(1).

This manual page was written by Fumitoshi UKAI <ukai@debian.or.jp>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

2016-07-13