just learned that (by default) the man pages have vi bindings but info has emacs bindings. worth noting if you're used to one text editor over another and want to navigate intuitively
1:11 here what he mean by "that" is actually the "/" key. Which opens the search prompt inside "less", the pager program man pages use by default ( if available ).
What is the integer suffix in parentheses shown after the name of a program? The main program is usually given 1 as in man(1) and then supplementary programs may be listed with higher numbers: manpath(5), sox(1), soxformat(7).
Look at man(1) for those numbers. But here is some of what those numbers mean. 1 typical user program like cat, echo etc... 2 system calls manual pages 3 C functions man pages e.g. printf(3), strlen(3) and some other functions you might find in other languages . 5 special files like those in /dev 8 binaries that requires root prevliges like pacman(8), apt(8).
just learned that (by default) the man pages have vi bindings but info has emacs bindings. worth noting if you're used to one text editor over another and want to navigate intuitively
1:11 here what he mean by "that" is actually the "/" key.
Which opens the search prompt inside "less", the pager program man pages use by default ( if available ).
Good vid. You should make a follow-up tutorial on how to write a man page using groff (or any equivalent).
What is the integer suffix in parentheses shown after the name of a program? The main program is usually given 1 as in man(1) and then supplementary programs may be listed with higher numbers: manpath(5), sox(1), soxformat(7).
Look at man(1) for those numbers.
But here is some of what those numbers mean.
1 typical user program like cat, echo etc...
2 system calls manual pages
3 C functions man pages e.g. printf(3), strlen(3) and some other functions you might find in other languages .
5 special files like those in /dev
8 binaries that requires root prevliges like pacman(8), apt(8).
Great video, thanks