Using man pages (was: Re: [wplug] Video editing)

[Robert E. Coutch]

Oh yea,

I use the / search function in man (and vi and less, etc.) all the time.
My problem was what I was searching for.
I was using words like "dump", "offset" and others that escape me right now.

Thanks for the tips all.

-Bob

On Friday 05 November 2004 10:58 am, Alexandros Papadopoulos wrote:
> On Friday 05 November 2004 17:34, Bryon Gill wrote:
> > The mplayer man page is organized terribly and contains far too few
> > examples. I only rely on it as a last resort, honestly.  I figured
> > the -ss thing out by googling for "mencoder offset".
>
> We're missing the context here because of top-posting, but anyway:
>
> For chaotic but data-rich man pages like mplayer(1), using the slash "/"
> to search for a string is a very useful mechanism that not everyone is
> aware of.
>
> Type [/][ENTER] to search for the same string again.
>
> -A
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