ManOpen is a macOS GUI application for viewing Unix manual ("man") pages. This repository is a fork of ManOpen 2.6 by Carl Lindberg.
- Graphical interface for viewing Unix man pages
- Open man page by name or manual section + name
- Search all man pages by keyword, using the
aproposcommand - Hyperlinks to related man pages
- Quick section navigation
- Open man files by path or
file:URL - Supports
x-man-page:URLs to open a man page or perform anapropossearch openmancommand line tool to start ManOpen from a terminal
ManOpen is built on macOS High Sierra 10.13 using Xcode 9.3. It should run on OS X Yosemite 10.10 and later.
For the files cat2html.l and cat2rtf.l, "Permission is granted to
use this code." All other files in the ManOpen project are available under a
BSD-style license; see the LICENSE file for details.
ManOpen 1.0 was originally released for NextSTEP by Harald Schlangmann in 1993. The first Mac OS X release, ManOpen 2.0, was released in October 1999 by Carl Lindberg. ManOpen 2.6, from which this version is forked, was released in March 2012.
ManDrake is an open source macOS app by Sveinbjörn Þórðarson for creating and editing man pages.