Overview
What is Tkman?
A graphical man page viewer
In depth
A closer look at Tkman
TkMan is a graphical, hypertext manual page and Texinfo browser for UNIX. TkMan boasts hypertext links, (optional) outline view of pages with a novel information visualization mechanism called NoteMarks, full text search among man pages, incremental and regular expression search within pages, robust yellow highlight annotations, a shortcut/hot list, lists of all pages in user-configurable volumes, a comprehensive Preferences panel, man page versioning support, and unmatched online text formatting and display quality, among many other features. TkMan uses but does not require glimpse. TkMan requires a version of tk with the elide patch. RPMs built with this patch exist in the contrib heirarchy.
Verdict
Should you download Tkman?
Tkman runs on
Linux
and is available under the
Not Specified
license
— the installer is 0 KB.
We’ve catalogued it under
X11.
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At a glance
Tkman specifications
- Last updated
- Feb 16, 2025
- License
- Not Specified
- Operating system
- Linux
- File size
- 0 KB
- Price
- Free
- Page views
- 439
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