NAME

mancha - view manual pages via cha(1)

SYNOPSIS

mancha [-M path] [section] name
mancha [-M path] [section] -k keyword
mancha -l file

DESCRIPTION

mancha enables viewing man pages using the Chawan browser. It is analogous to the w3mman(1) utility.

mancha will call cha(1) with the appropriate man:, man-k: or man-l: URLs. The protocol adapter then opens the man page and injects markup into it, e.g. man page references are converted into man: links.

OPTIONS

Command line options are:

-M path

Set path as the MANPATH environment variable. See man(1) for details of how this is interpreted.

-k keyword

Use keyword for keyword-based man page search.

-l file

Open the specified local file as a man page.

ENVIRONMENT

Following environment variables are used:

MANCHA_CHA

If set, the contents of the variable are used instead of cha. (Note that the cha command is called through system(3), so you do not have to override it so long as cha is found in your PATH.)

MANCHA_MAN

If set, the contents of the variable are used instead of /usr/bin/man.

MANCHA_APROPOS

If set, the contents of the variable are used instead of /usr/bin/man.

(This is not a typo; normally (except on FreeBSD), mancha assumes that man(1) is compatible with apropos(1) and accepts the -s parameter. Overriding MANCHA_MAN therefore also overrides the command used for man-k, so long as MANCHA_APROPOS is not set.)

SEE ALSO

man(1), cha(1), cha-localcgi(5), w3mman(1)