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bug #66744: Let user scroll back and forth between multiple man pages selected with -a switch

Submitter:  Dave <barx>
Submitted:  Fri 31 Jan 2025 08:32:00 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  None Severity:  3 - Normal
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Fri 31 Jan 2025 08:32:00 PM UTC, original submission:  

Colin requested (http://lists.gnu.org/r/groff/2025-01/msg00120.html) a bug report for this observation from Ingo Schwarze (http://lists.gnu.org/r/groff/2025-01/msg00112.html), quoted below.



"man -a crontab" first opens only crontab(1), so you cannot compare to crontab(5) because that is not yet displayed.  When you are done reading crontab(1), you have to press 'q' and then you need another (!!) keystroke (RETURN) to get to crontab(5).  From there, you have no way at all to get back to crontab(1): when you press 'q' there, the whole program terminates and drops you back to the shell.

With mandoc man(1), "man -a crontab" shows both manual pages at the same time, crontab(5) below crontab(1), such that you can scroll back and forth to your heart's content with no keystrokes wasted for switching from one to the other.

Dave <barx>

 

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