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s20ntoday at 12:55 PM2 repliesview on HN

For me man(3) is the most interesting of them all.

Run `apropos . | grep "(3)"`; you'll be surprised how many libraries come with man pages for their functions (e.g; curl).

Now I wonder if there are any IDEs that can automatically dial into these man pages and pull up documentation for functions?


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simonciontoday at 4:22 PM

  apropos --sections=3 .
may be a better version of what you propose, depending on what you're looking for. On my system, this also gives me entries from sections like '3x' and '3ossl' and '3bsd'.
burnt-resistortoday at 2:13 PM

There's guaranteed to be some sort of context-sensitive man plugin for vim &| nvim for shell scripts.

Also, have you ever seen the DOS Borland IDE context sensitive help UX?

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