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Bug 669092 - Yelp cannot display perldoc and pydoc help pages, clumsy handling of man pages
Yelp cannot display perldoc and pydoc help pages, clumsy handling of man pages
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: yelp
Classification: Applications
Component: General
3.2.x
Other Linux
: Normal major
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Assigned To: Yelp maintainers
Yelp maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-01-31 08:17 UTC by drx
Modified: 2018-05-22 12:56 UTC
See Also:
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Description drx 2012-01-31 08:17:49 UTC 
The gnome-help browser used to be able to find man pages by just searching from them. It could display perldoc and pydoc documentation. Yelp does not or does not make it obvious how to get there.

While for example running "yelp man:rsync" from the command line works, typing "man:rsync" in yelp's URL bar does not. Nor does running "yelp perldoc:Apache" or "yelp pydoc:os" from the command line.

Yelp should search and display man pages, perldoc, pydoc and any other console based help system, not only by command line arguments or special URLs. I believe there are enough converters available to do it.
Comment 1 garrett.mitchener 2013-04-12 13:55:38 UTC 
See also bug #505641
Comment 2 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-05-22 12:56:43 UTC 
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